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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] notice error exit from pager
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:17:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd3goj38n.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110801175921.GA17092@toss> (Clemens Buchacher's message of "Mon, 1 Aug 2011 19:59:21 +0200")

Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> writes:

> Since there is no reliable way to handle error reporting in the
> parent, produce the output in the child instead.

Hmm, how does this interact with your earlier "error_routine: use parent's
stderr if exec fails" patch?

> diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
> index 5c91f37..a2796c4 100644
> --- a/run-command.c
> +++ b/run-command.c
> @@ -125,9 +125,6 @@ static int wait_or_whine(pid_t pid, const char *argv0, int silent_exec_failure)
>  		if (code == 127) {
>  			code = -1;
>  			failed_errno = ENOENT;
> -			if (!silent_exec_failure)
> -				error("cannot run %s: %s", argv0,
> -					strerror(ENOENT));
>  		}
>  	} else {
>  		error("waitpid is confused (%s)", argv0);
> @@ -282,14 +279,14 @@ fail_pipe:
>  		} else {
>  			execvp(cmd->argv[0], (char *const*) cmd->argv);
>  		}
> -		/*
> -		 * Do not check for cmd->silent_exec_failure; the parent
> -		 * process will check it when it sees this exit code.
> -		 */
> -		if (errno == ENOENT)
> +		if (errno == ENOENT) {
> +			if (!cmd->silent_exec_failure)
> +				error("cannot run %s: %s", cmd->argv[0],
> +					strerror(ENOENT));
>  			exit(127);
> -		else
> +		} else {
>  			die_errno("cannot exec '%s'", cmd->argv[0]);
> +		}
>  	}
>  	if (cmd->pid < 0)
>  		error("cannot fork() for %s: %s", cmd->argv[0],

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-01 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-26 21:04 [PATCH/RFC] notice error exit from pager Clemens Buchacher
2011-07-26 21:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-27 19:36 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-07-27 21:32   ` [PATCH] error_routine: use parent's stderr if exec fails Clemens Buchacher
2011-08-01 17:59 ` [PATCH] notice error exit from pager Clemens Buchacher
2011-08-01 20:17   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-08-01 20:35     ` Clemens Buchacher

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