Re: [PATCH 0/3] Another approach to large transactions

Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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On the core management side, xmalloc() and friends retry upon
failure, after attempting to free the resource.  I wonder if your
codepath can do something similar to that, perhaps?

But then we'd need to think about which fds can be 'garbage collected'.
The lock files certainly can be closed and reopened.

... and that is the natural thing to garbage collect, no?  After
all, this approach allows lock-file subsystem to keep fds open even
when they do not absolutely have to, so they are the best candidates
to be shot down first when things gets tight.

A good thing is that you have a list of all them already for use by
the atexit handler ;-)