On 2019.04.08 13:28, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> writes: > > > unique (AFAICT "actually unique" in practice) in the parallel in-flight > > jh/trace2-sid-fix > > (https://public-inbox.org/git/4352952677a11776a18ec9b6862cf358307cfafd.1553879063.git.gitgitgad...@gmail.com/) > > > > I think it's fine to merge js/trace2-to-directory down as it is, but do > > you/Josh think that retry logic needs to stay with that sort of SID? > > I do not speak for Josh, but I think the only two logical choices > are to open with (O_CREAT|O_EXCL) and > > (1) fallback with .%d suffix, making it clear that we are not > willing to lose log files even when SID generation is botched; or > > (2) die/BUG when it fails, making it clear that we do rely on the > guanateed uniqueness of SID. > > A distant third may be to warn when open with O_CREAT|O_EXCL fails, > but I am not sure what its value would be to do so---especially if > we trust in the "actually unique in practice". Between (1) and (2), > I have a slight preference to (1) over (2), as that is much easier > to explain. > > Those who want to have a "fixed width" thing could just ignore the > ones with suffix---as long as the "actually unique in practice" > claim holds, doing so will not lose any non-negligible amount of > information anyway.
I prefer (1) as well, although I would be happy to re-write this if the list consensus goes the other way.
