Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] transport-helper: call do_take_over() in connect_helper

[Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>]

Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Jiang Xin <zhiyou.jx@alibaba-inc.com>
>
> After successfully connecting to the smart transport by calling
> process_connect_service() in connect_helper(), run do_take_over() to
> replace the old vtable with a new one which has methods ready for the
> smart transport connection.
> 
>
> The connect_helper() function is used as the connect method of the
> vtable in "transport-helper.c", and it is called by transport_connect()
> in "transport.c" to setup a connection. The only place that we call
> transport_connect() so far is in "builtin/archive.c". Without running
> do_take_over(), it may fail to call transport_disconnect() in
> run_remote_archiver() of "builtin/archive.c". This is because for a
> stateless connection or a service like "git-upload-pack-archive", the

There is "git-upload-pack" and "git-upload-archive". Which one did you
mean here? Or did you mean both?

> remote helper may receive a SIGPIPE signal and exit early. To have a
> graceful disconnect method by calling do_take_over() will solve this
> issue.

Are you saying that this patch fixes an existing bug? That is, is this
patch independent of the first patch (transport-helper: no connection
restriction in connect_helper) in this series?

> The subsequent commit will introduce remote archive over a stateless-rpc
> connection.

Does the next commit depend on this patch? If not, I think you can drop
this paragraph.

> Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <zhiyou.jx@alibaba-inc.com>
> ---
>  transport-helper.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/transport-helper.c b/transport-helper.c
> index 51088cc03a..3b036ae1ca 100644
> --- a/transport-helper.c
> +++ b/transport-helper.c
> @@ -672,6 +672,8 @@ static int connect_helper(struct transport *transport, const char *name,
>  
>  	fd[0] = data->helper->out;
>  	fd[1] = data->helper->in;
> +
> +	do_take_over(transport);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.41.0.232.g2f6f0bca4f.agit.8.0.4.dev