[PATCH] credential-cache: close stderr in daemon process
- From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Sep 14, 2014, 07:35 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20140914073506.GA19667@peff.net>
If the stderr of "git credential-cache" is redirected to a pipe, the reader on the other end of a pipe may be surprised that the pipe remains open long after the process exits. This happens because we may auto-spawn a daemon which is long-lived, and which keeps stderr open.
We can solve this by redirecting the daemon's stderr to /dev/null once we are ready to go into our event loop. We would not want to do so before then, because we may want to report errors about the setup (e.g., failure to establish the listening socket).
This does mean that we will not report errors we encounter for specific clients. That's acceptable, as such errors should be rare (e.g., clients sending buggy requests). However, we also provide an escape hatch: if you want to see these later messages, you can provide the "--debug" option to keep stderr open.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> --- Documentation/git-credential-cache--daemon.txt | 6 +++++- credential-cache--daemon.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-cache--daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-cache--daemon.txt index d15db42..7051c6b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential-cache--daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential-cache--daemon.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-credential-cache--daemon - Temporarily store user credentials in memory SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -git credential-cache--daemon <socket> +git credential-cache--daemon [--debug] <socket> DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ for `git-credential-cache` clients. Clients may store and retrieve credentials. Each credential is held for a timeout specified by the client; once no credentials are held, the daemon exits. +If the `--debug` option is specified, the daemon does not close its +stderr stream, and may output extra diagnostics to it even after it has +begun listening for clients. + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/credential-cache--daemon.c b/credential-cache--daemon.c index 3b370ca..c07a67c 100644 --- a/credential-cache--daemon.c +++ b/credential-cache--daemon.c @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ #include "credential.h" #include "unix-socket.h" #include "sigchain.h" +#include "parse-options.h" static const char *socket_path; @@ -201,7 +202,7 @@ static int serve_cache_loop(int fd) return 1; } -static void serve_cache(const char *socket_path) +static void serve_cache(const char *socket_path, int debug) { int fd; @@ -211,6 +212,8 @@ static void serve_cache(const char *socket_path) printf("ok\n"); fclose(stdout); + if (!debug) + freopen("/dev/null", "w", stderr); while (serve_cache_loop(fd)) ; /* nothing */ @@ -252,16 +255,28 @@ static void check_socket_directory(const char *path) int main(int argc, const char **argv) { - socket_path = argv[1]; + static const char *usage[] = { + "git-credential-cache--daemon [opts] <socket_path>", + NULL + }; + int debug = 0; + const struct option options[] = { + OPT_BOOL(0, "debug", &debug, + N_("print debugging messages to stderr")), + OPT_END() + }; + + argc = parse_options(argc, argv, NULL, options, usage, 0); + socket_path = argv[0]; if (!socket_path) - die("usage: git-credential-cache--daemon <socket_path>"); + usage_with_options(usage, options); check_socket_directory(socket_path); atexit(cleanup_socket); sigchain_push_common(cleanup_socket_on_signal); - serve_cache(socket_path); + serve_cache(socket_path, debug); return 0; }
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