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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 08/19] write_or_die: raise SIGPIPE when we get EPIPE
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:01:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130220220114.GB24236@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130220215845.GB817@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 01:51:11PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>>> +	if (err == EPIPE) {
>>> +		signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL);
>>> +		raise(SIGPIPE);
>>> +		/* Should never happen, but just in case... */
>>> +		exit(141);
>>
>> How about
>>
>> 		die("BUG: another thread changed SIGPIPE handling behind my back!");
>>
>> to make it easier to find and fix such problems?
>
> You mean for the "should never happen" bit, not the first part, right? I
> actually wonder if we should simply exit(141) in the first place. That
> is shell exit-code for SIGPIPE death already (so it's what our
> run_command would show us, and what anybody running us through shell
> would see).

Yes, for the "should never happen" part.  Raising a signal is nice
because it means the wait()-ing process can see what happened by
checking WIFSIGNALED(status).

Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-20 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-20 19:51 [PATCHv3 0/19] pkt-line cleanups and fixes Jeff King
2013-02-20 19:53 ` [PATCH v3 01/19] upload-pack: use get_sha1_hex to parse "shallow" lines Jeff King
2013-02-20 19:54 ` [PATCH v3 02/19] upload-pack: do not add duplicate objects to shallow list Jeff King
2013-02-20 19:55 ` [PATCH v3 03/19] upload-pack: remove packet debugging harness Jeff King
2013-02-20 20:00 ` [PATCH v3 04/19] fetch-pack: fix out-of-bounds buffer offset in get_ack Jeff King
2013-02-20 20:00 ` [PATCH v3 05/19] send-pack: prefer prefixcmp over memcmp in receive_status Jeff King
2013-02-20 20:00 ` [PATCH v3 06/19] upload-archive: do not copy repo name Jeff King
2013-02-20 20:01 ` [PATCH v3 07/19] upload-archive: use argv_array to store client arguments Jeff King
2013-02-20 20:01 ` [PATCH v3 08/19] write_or_die: raise SIGPIPE when we get EPIPE Jeff King
2013-02-20 21:51   ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-20 21:58     ` Jeff King
2013-02-20 22:01       ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2013-02-20 22:03         ` Jeff King
2013-02-20 22:06           ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-20 22:12             ` Jeff King
2013-02-20 22:19               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-28  8:35   ` [BUG] MSVC: error box when interrupting `gitlog` by quitting less Marat Radchenko
2014-03-28  9:14     ` Marat Radchenko
2014-03-28  9:44       ` Jeff King
2014-03-28 10:07         ` Marat Radchenko
2014-03-28 10:19           ` Jeff King
2014-03-28 10:28           ` Johannes Sixt
2014-03-28 11:19             ` [PATCH] MSVC: link in invalidcontinue.obj for better POSIX compatibility Marat Radchenko
2014-03-28 18:27               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-28 18:46                 ` Marat Radchenko
2014-03-28 19:06                 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-28 20:08                   ` [PATCH v2] " Marat Radchenko
2014-03-28 20:35                     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-20 20:01 ` [PATCH v3 09/19] pkt-line: move a misplaced comment Jeff King
2013-02-20 20:01 ` [PATCH v3 10/19] pkt-line: drop safe_write function Jeff King
2013-02-20 20:02 ` [PATCH v3 11/19] pkt-line: provide a generic reading function with options Jeff King
2013-02-20 20:02 ` [PATCH v3 12/19] pkt-line: teach packet_read_line to chomp newlines Jeff King
2013-02-20 20:02 ` [PATCH v3 13/19] pkt-line: move LARGE_PACKET_MAX definition from sideband Jeff King
2013-02-20 20:02 ` [PATCH v3 14/19] pkt-line: provide a LARGE_PACKET_MAX static buffer Jeff King
2013-02-20 20:04 ` [PATCH v3 15/19] pkt-line: share buffer/descriptor reading implementation Jeff King
2013-02-22 11:22   ` Eric Sunshine
2013-02-20 20:06 ` [PATCH v3 16/19] teach get_remote_heads to read from a memory buffer Jeff King
2013-02-20 20:07 ` [PATCH v3 17/19] remote-curl: pass buffer straight to get_remote_heads Jeff King
2013-02-20 20:07 ` [PATCH v3 18/19] remote-curl: move ref-parsing code up in file Jeff King
2013-02-20 20:07 ` [PATCH v3 19/19] remote-curl: always parse incoming refs Jeff King

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