From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>,
GIT Mailing-list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: t0301-credential-cache test failure on cygwin
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 11:26:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqsfnczslt.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YsciDznU2TqzCXP4@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 7 Jul 2022 14:12:31 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> Of the three, I actually like the client-side one to check errno the
> best. The client is mostly "best effort". If it can't talk to the daemon
> for whatever reason, then it becomes a noop (there is nothing it can
> retrieve from the cache, and if it's trying to write, then oh well, the
> cached value was immediately expired!).
>
> So one could argue that _every_ read error should be silently ignored.
> Calling die_errno() is mostly a nicety for debugging a broken setup, but
> in normal use, the outcome is the same either way (and Git will
> certainly ignore the exit code credential-cache anyway). I prefer the
> "ignore known harmless errors" approach, possibly because I am often the
> one debugging. ;) If ECONNABORTED is a harmless error we see in
> practice, I don't mind adding it to the list (under the same rationale
> as the current ECONNRESET that is there).
With the issue of race clearly explained, I agree that this would be
the best solution for this issue.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-07 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-07 1:50 t0301-credential-cache test failure on cygwin Ramsay Jones
2022-07-07 6:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-07-07 15:17 ` Ramsay Jones
2022-07-07 18:19 ` Jeff King
2022-07-07 18:29 ` Jeff King
2022-07-07 19:14 ` Ramsay Jones
2022-07-11 7:49 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2022-07-11 13:39 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2022-07-11 14:56 ` Ramsay Jones
2022-07-13 14:42 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2022-07-13 19:16 ` Jeff King
2022-07-13 20:35 ` Ramsay Jones
2022-07-07 18:12 ` Jeff King
2022-07-07 18:26 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-07-07 19:59 ` Ramsay Jones
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