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Checking the size before we open the file descriptor can lead to the
file being replaced from under us when renames aren't quite atomic, so
we can end up reading too little of the file, leading to us thinking the
file is corrupted.
Make our overflow checking look more like gcc and clang's, so that
we can substitute it out with the compiler instrinsics on platforms
that support it. This means dropping the ability to pass `NULL` as
an out parameter.
As a result, the macros also get updated to reflect this as well.
This is a big refactoring of the attribute file cache to be a bit
simpler which in turn makes it easier to enforce a lock around any
updates to the cache so that it can be used in a threaded env.
Tons of changes to the attributes and ignores code.
This adds a basic test of doing simultaneous diffs on multiple
threads and adds basic locking for the attr file cache because
that was the immediate problem that arose from these tests.
This updates the git_pqueue to simply be a set of specialized
init/insert/pop functions on a git_vector.
To preserve the pqueue feature of having a fixed size heap, I
converted the "sorted" field in git_vectors to a more general
"flags" field so that pqueue could mix in it's own flag. This
had a bunch of ramifications because a number of places were
directly looking at the vector "sorted" field - I added a couple
new git_vector helpers (is_sorted, set_sorted) so the specific
representation of this information could be abstracted.
This converts an internal lock from a write lock to a read lock
where write isn't needed, and also clarifies some doc things about
where various locks are acquired and how various APIs are intended
to be used.
This adds a convenient new data type for caching the contents of
file in memory when each item in that file corresponds to a name
and you need to both be able to lookup items by name and iterate
over them in some sorted order. The new data type has locks in
place to manage usage in a threaded environment.
