Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix file locking with retry and timeout on Windows

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

The remaining 3 patches replace the select() invocation that waits
for a short time period by the version with poll() that we already
use in help.c. This is necessary because a select() call where all
three sets of file descriptors are empty is not supported on Windows.

Thanks.

The use of both select() and poll() in our code has been bugging me
for a long time (but wasn't irritating enough to make me do anything
about it).

Johannes Sixt (4):
  lockfile: replace random() by rand()
  help.c: wrap wait-only poll() invocation in sleep_millisec()
  lockfile: convert retry timeout computations to millisecond
  lockfile: wait using sleep_millisec() instead of select()

 cache.h    |  1 +
 help.c     |  2 +-
 lockfile.c | 31 +++++++++----------------------
 wrapper.c  |  5 +++++
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)