Excerpts from Mads Kiilerich's message of 2017-03-12 11:48:35 -0700: > I only see mentioning of problems with Windows on the client side. > Matt's theory of the source of the cache coherency issue suggested that > it was interaction between client and server side caches. Non-windows > client side implementations may or may not have the same problem, but I > see nothing suggesting they have. > > That might of course be because most users of repos on CIFS are Windows > users. The problem is serious when it happens, but considering the > non-Windows uncertainty, the small amount of non-Windows users using > CIFS repos, and the negative impact on all non-Windows users, it might > be justified to be less conservative for non-Windows.
Per discussion with Augie yesterday, I prefer the very conservative approach. That's why I added the "_isprocgenuine" check which looks expensive but will greatly increase our confidence, and spent 2 hours checking kernel code, doing experiments, and writing the commit message. > > /Mads _______________________________________________ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel
