Jeff King <[email protected]> writes: > I have tried to help with the actual problem, by identifying the root > cause (that the trace code's strategy is not fundamentally broken, but > that it relies on O_APPEND whose guarantees are obviously not portable > to Windows) and exploring possible solutions there (FILE_APPEND_DATA). > > Lacking any kind of Windows development environment, I'd just as soon > stop there and let more knowledgeable people take over. But please don't > characterize my presence in this thread as some kind of willful harm or > ignoring of the problem.
Thanks. It seems like the other Johannes and the other Jeff are also interested, so we may hopefully see a properly fixed O_APPEND, which would be the real solution that would help appenders that are *not* tracing subsystem, too.
