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Thu, 15 Oct 2020 03:02:08 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20201009200737.GA78914@CptOrmolo.darkstar> <20201009205357.GA6449@CptOrmolo.darkstar> In-Reply-To: From: Roman Perepelitsa Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 12:01:58 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [patch] Avoid race in zf_mkdir To: Zsh hackers list Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Seq: 47459 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-workers@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-workers-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-workers-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 1:50 PM Roman Perepelitsa wrote: > > Perhaps try N times instead of forever? The patch you've posted uses N > = 1 (which is already better than the existing code) but it can be any > other number. Does anyone have an opinion on the value of N? My latest patch sets N=8 but N=1 would be fine in practice, too. I'd like to fix this so that I can stop using a workaround whenever I invoke `zf_mkdir -p`. Roman.