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From: Albert Dvornik <dvornik+git@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, msysgit@googlegroups.com,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] start_command: close cmd->err descriptor when fork/spawn  fails
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:47:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <z2n9f74dc2c1004260447y12b522d8if37cad56548738f1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BD53749.6040708@viscovery.net>

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> Am 4/26/2010 3:15, schrieb bert Dvornik:
[...]
>> I'm not sure why (or if) this problem hasn't cropped up under Linux.
>> The non-Windows code *does* try to check for execve() failures in the
>> child, in addition to the fork() failures.
>
> The problem does show up on Linux if you trigger the right error, such as
> with this patch:
[...]
> +       echo "#!/bin/frobnicuty" >testrepo/.git/hooks/pre-receive &&
> +       echo exit 1 >>testrepo/.git/hooks/pre-receive &&

Ah, that makes sense!  Thank you for clearing up the mystery.

Junio: would you like me to resend with an updated commit message, and
maybe the addition of Hannes's test as well?

--bert

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-26 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-26  1:15 [PATCH] start_command: close cmd->err descriptor when fork/spawn fails bert Dvornik
2010-04-26  6:16 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-04-26  6:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-04-26  6:48 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-04-26 11:47   ` Albert Dvornik [this message]
2010-04-26 23:58     ` Junio C Hamano

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