[PATCH] D40094: LTO: clarify why we need to gracefully handle sys::fs::rename failures

[Bob Haarman via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

inglorion created this revision.
Herald added subscribers: hiraditya, mehdi_amini.

https://reviews.llvm.org/D40094

Files:
  llvm/lib/LTO/Caching.cpp


Index: llvm/lib/LTO/Caching.cpp
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--- llvm/lib/LTO/Caching.cpp
+++ llvm/lib/LTO/Caching.cpp
@@ -71,13 +71,14 @@
                              TempFilename + ": " +
                              MBOrErr.getError().message() + "\n");
 
-        // This is atomic on POSIX systems.
-        // On Windows, it can fail with permission denied if the destination
-        // file already exists. Since the existing file should be semantically
-        // equivalent to the one we are trying to write, we give AddBuffer
-        // a copy of the bytes we wrote in that case. We do this instead of
-        // just using the existing file, because the pruner might delete the
-        // file before we get a chance to use it.
+        // On POSIX systems, rename will atomically replace the destination if
+        // it already exists. We try to emulate this on Windows, but this may
+        // fail with a permission denied error (for example, if the destination
+        // is currently mmapped). Since the existing file should be semantically
+        // equivalent to the one we are trying to write, we give AddBuffer a
+        // copy of the bytes we wrote in that case. We do this instead of just
+        // using the existing file, because the pruner might delete the file
+        // before we get a chance to use it.
         auto EC = sys::fs::rename(TempFilename, EntryPath);
         if (EC == errc::permission_denied) {
           auto MBCopy = MemoryBuffer::getMemBufferCopy(


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