larger source files cause failure to delete backup files when doing :w

[reiend]

I pinpoint the issue by removing all of my plugins except nvim-lint
this happen when doing :w

linter - clang-tidy
file size - 16.94kb
lines - 544
nvim - 0.10.2v
os - windows
shell - powershell
terminal - windows terminal

config

local plugin = require 'lint'

plugin.linters.clangtidy.args = {
  '-p',
  'build',
}

plugin.linters_by_ft = {
  lua = { 'luacheck' },
  c = { 'clangtidy' },
  cpp = { 'clangtidy' },
  javascript = { 'eslint_d' },
  javascriptreact = { 'eslint_d' },
  typescript = { 'eslint_d' },
  typescriptreact = { 'eslint_d' },
}

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ 'BufWritePost' }, {
  callback = function()
    -- try_lint without arguments runs the linters defined in `linters_by_ft`
    -- for the current filetype
    require('lint').try_lint()
  end,
})

will try to recreate the same thing in linux.

[reiend]

I pinpoint the issue by removing all of my plugins except nvim-lint this happen when doing :w

linter - clang-tidy file size - 16.94kb lines - 544 nvim - 0.10.2v os - windows shell - powershell terminal - windows terminal

config

local plugin = require 'lint'

plugin.linters.clangtidy.args = {
  '-p',
  'build',
}

plugin.linters_by_ft = {
  lua = { 'luacheck' },
  c = { 'clangtidy' },
  cpp = { 'clangtidy' },
  javascript = { 'eslint_d' },
  javascriptreact = { 'eslint_d' },
  typescript = { 'eslint_d' },
  typescriptreact = { 'eslint_d' },
}

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ 'BufWritePost' }, {
  callback = function()
    -- try_lint without arguments runs the linters defined in `linters_by_ft`
    -- for the current filetype
    require('lint').try_lint()
  end,
})

will try to recreate the same thing in linux.

I tried this setup below in linux
linter - clang-tidy
file size - 16.94kb
lines - 544
nvim - 0.10.2v

it works fine.

[mfussenegger]

I don't use/have windows so I cannot look into this. My best guess is that spawing clang-tidy with the filepath causes windows to "lock" the file, causing issues with the backup mechanism. If that's the case I'm also not sure if there's much that can be done on nvim-lint side.

If anyone has a fix for this a PR would be welcome, but I'm not going to spend time on this.