From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 20:42:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t0008: avoid SIGPIPE race condition on fifo
Message-ID: <20130712204228.GB5276@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vbo67oig5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 09:23:54AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > In that case, check-ignore gets a SIGPIPE and dies. The
> > outer shell then tries to open the output fifo but blocks
> > indefinitely, because there is no writer.  We can fix it by
> > keeping a descriptor open through the whole procedure.
> 
> Ahh, figures.
> 
> I wish I were smart enough to figure that out immediately after
> seeing the test that does funny things to "in" with "9".

I wish I were smart enough to have figured it out when I was writing the
funny stuff with "in" and "9" in the first place. :)

-Peff