I've read the series while on a bus and found all of them sensible.
I do share the worry of retry storm you expressed in the last one,
and I agree that giving up after N times is a reasonable way out,
when it becomes necessary.
Thanks.
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This patch series is inspired by the first patch [1] in a series by
Peff and solves the race condition that he discovered plus a second,
similar race. The general problem is that loose ref files are read in
two steps: lstat() followed by readlink() or open(). If another
process changes the file b
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