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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] gitweb: remove test when closing file descriptor
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:02:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011170002.47678.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292539020.2511.6.camel@kheops>

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Sylvain Rabot wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 14:30 -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr> writes:
> > 
> > > it happens that closing file descriptor fails whereas
> > > the blob is perfectly readable.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr>
> > > ---
[...]
> > > -	close $fd
> > > -		or die_error(404, "Reading blob failed");
> > > +	close $fd;

[...]
> > In this place we close read end of pipe after at most reading a few
> > bytes (what -T test does), so what might happen is that writer got
> > SIGPIPE and "failed".  But we are not interested in this, so we can
> > safely ignore return from 'close'.
> > 
> > I think that some from above explanation should make it to commit
> > message.
> 
> Thanks for explaining it, I did not have any idea why it was failing.
> Can I use your explanation as commit message ?

Of course.

Though I am not sure if it is really the reason, it looks reasonable.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-16 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-16 21:43 [PATCH 0/3] minor gitweb modifications Sylvain Rabot
2010-12-16 21:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] gitweb: add extensions to highlight feature Sylvain Rabot
2010-12-16 22:22   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-16 22:33     ` Sylvain Rabot
2010-12-17 11:17       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-16 21:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] gitweb: decorate a bit more remotes Sylvain Rabot
2010-12-16 22:23   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-20 12:04     ` Drew Northup
2010-12-16 21:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] gitweb: remove test when closing file descriptor Sylvain Rabot
2010-12-16 22:30   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-16 22:37     ` Sylvain Rabot
2010-11-16 23:02       ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-12-20 19:01 [PATCH 0/3 v2] minor gitweb modifications Sylvain Rabot
2010-12-20 19:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] gitweb: remove test when closing file descriptor Sylvain Rabot

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