[RFC] [Bug 363837] proposed patch

[Alexander Belchenko]

Maritza Mendez пишет:
> I'm just starting to read up on the etiquette for bzr.dev, so please
> point me in the right direction.

If you want to have more comments on  your patch then send it to the list
with [MERGE] sign in the subject.

> Although I have expereinced this regression only with BeyondCompare3 as
> my external diff tool, this regression is worth addressing for four reasons:

I wonder why you see it only with BC. Have you tried other diff tools?
E.g. WinMerge? Just to see is this problem specific only to BC.
It seems BC does not clean up on exit properly, and thus it's a bug in BC.

> 1. An intrinsic race condition exists.  It's not specific to any tool. 
> Others will feel it sooner or later.
> 2. The fix can be isolated to the win32 compatibility layer.  So it's
> relatively safe.
> 3. Promoting bzr on Windows is the Right Thing to do.
> 4. BeyondCompare is the most powerful diff/merge tool I've seen, it's
> inexpensive, and it is now available for Linux as well as Windows.
> 
> I hope at least that the first three are not controversial.  And I have
> no connection to BeyondCompare except as a very satisfied customer for
> the last five years.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Martitza
>