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Re: [PATCH 1/3] usage: refactor die-recursion checks

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 16, 2013, 01:41 UTC
Message-ID
<20130416014145.GC3262@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To
<20130416004228.GA14995@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King wrote:
> I was also tempted to suggest just dropping the recursion check
> altogether. While it is neat to detect such things, it's a "should never
> happen" bug situation, and an infinite loop of printing out the same
> message is pretty easy to notice.

On servers it might be useful to avoid accidentally filling up logs quickly.

IIUC the context is in the following two threads:
 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/182982
 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/181421/focus=181443

Thanks, Jonathan

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Message 7 of 23 in “avoid bogus "recursion detected in die handler" message”
  1. 0/3 avoid bogus "recursion detected in die handler" messageJeff King, Apr 15, 2013
  2. 1/3 usage: refactor die-recursion checksJeff King, Apr 15, 2013
  3. Eric SunshineApr 15, 2013
  4. Jeff KingApr 15, 2013
  5. Brandon CaseyApr 16, 2013
  6. Jeff KingApr 16, 2013
  7. Jonathan NiederApr 16, 2013
  8. Brandon CaseyApr 16, 2013
  9. Jeff KingApr 16, 2013
  10. Johannes SixtApr 16, 2013
  11. Jeff KingApr 16, 2013
  12. Johannes SixtApr 16, 2013
  13. 0/2 avoid bogus "recursion detected in die handler" messageJeff King, Apr 16, 2013
  14. 1/2 usage: allow pluggable die-recursion checksJeff King, Apr 16, 2013
  15. 2/2 run-command: use thread-aware die_is_recursing routineJeff King, Apr 16, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2013
  17. Jonathan NiederApr 17, 2013
  18. Jeff KingApr 17, 2013
  19. Erik Faye-LundApr 23, 2013
  20. 2/3 run-command: factor out running_main_thread functionJeff King, Apr 15, 2013
  21. Jonathan NiederApr 16, 2013
  22. Jeff KingApr 16, 2013
  23. 3/3 usage: do not check die recursion outside main threadJeff King, Apr 15, 2013

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