Re: [PATCH 4/4] send-pack: abort sideband demuxer on pack-objects error
On Donnerstag, 14. April 2011, Jeff King wrote:
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> So what do you want to do about the fd that needs closing? The options
> I see are:
>
> 1. Try for a general solution. That probably means the "close every
> descriptor in the child" hackiness that I mentioned earlier.
>
> 2. Fix this case by having the async code close it if it was forked.
> It needs to know whether we forked, so we can:
>
> a. Use NO_PTHREADS. Easy and simple, though it does break
> start_async's abstraction a bit.
>
> b. Have start_async pass in a flag telling what happened. This
> really breaks the abstraction very similarly to (a), but it
> makes the connection more explicit.
>
> I think I am leaning a bit towards (2a). It's simple, and it's not like
> this is library code with a million unknown callers; fixing it simply
> and cleanly with a nice commit message is probably sufficient.
(2a) would be good enough for my taste, too!
-- Hannes