From: Jakub Narebski Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:02:47 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] gitweb: remove test when closing file descriptor Message-ID: <201011170002.47678.jnareb@gmail.com> 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 writes: > > > > > it happens that closing file descriptor fails whereas > > > the blob is perfectly readable. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Sylvain Rabot > > > --- [...] > > > - 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