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From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Brian Foster <brian.foster@innova-card.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git daemon: avoid calling syslog() from a signal handler
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 08:54:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080707065439.GA25877@cuci.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vmykua2et.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
>Another thing we might want to consider to make this logic much more
>simpler would be to move everything out of child_handler(), except the
>write() whose sole purpose is to allow us break out of the poll().

As a general rule, keep the work done in a signal handler down to the
bare minimum (like setting an integer flag, and perhaps unblocking the
main thread through a write to this signallingpipe).
-- 
Sincerely,
           Stephen R. van den Berg.

A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-07  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-03 12:00 Non-inetd git-daemon hangs in syslog(3)/fclose(3) if --syslog --verbose accessing non-repositories Brian Foster
2008-07-03 12:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-03 13:52   ` Brian Foster
2008-07-03 14:32     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-03 15:27       ` [PATCH] git daemon: avoid calling syslog() from a signal handler Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-05  7:34         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-05 10:05           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-05 17:26             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-06  1:42               ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-06  6:08                 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-06 12:23                   ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-07  1:50                     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-07  6:54                       ` Stephen R. van den Berg [this message]

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