On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 11:36:07AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > On 1/16/18, Martin Gagnon <eme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Few minutes ago, I've commit a small fix on trunk and my commit has > > create a fork. I thought that since a while, fossil will not allow > > forking unless "--allow-fork" is specified, which I didn't specify. Is > > it normal, or is it an uncovered corner case ? > > There are unresolvable race conditions in the anti-fork checking. > "Unresolvable" in the sense that the only fix is to introduce some > kind of locking on the server, which we definitely do not want to do.
Ok, it make sense. > > It is easy enough to recover from the occasional fork that happens due > to a race. > Very easy actually... Thanks -- Martin G. _______________________________________________ fossil-dev mailing list fossil-dev@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-dev
