Re: [msysGit] upload-pack timing issue on windows?

> On Samstag, 6. Februar 2010, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
>> However, I have tracked down a bit of what goes on in the client.
>> There's a call to read_in_full, called from pack-write.c, line 246
>> that fails in the failure-case, but not in the success-case. This is
>> where the client expects "pack\tSHA-1" or "keep\tSHA-1". There "fatal:
>> early EOF"-messages seems to originate from index-pack.c, line 197.
>> This is the first line of code in parse_pack_header(), it's also
>> AFAICT the first call-site for any read(0, <...>) (though fill()).
>
> This looks like upload-pack died without sending enough to fill a pack header.
>
> Try merging this branch:
>
>  git://repo.or.cz/git/mingw/j6t.git async-in-thread
>
> It contains your changes to start_async plus a refinement of die() when it is
> called from the async procedure (it passes t5530, for example). It is also
> converted to pthreads, and therefore also works on Unix. The new
> implementation of start_async is more careful about the file handles, though
> not so much on Windows.
>
> If there's no change for you, then you could look into implementing
> fcntl(F_GETFD/SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC), which are currently ignored, on top of this
> branch, using Get/SetHandleInformation().
>

> Background: On Unix, we need FD_CLOEXEC so that the fds that are meant for the
> async thread do not remain open in an unrelated child process; on Windows, we
> are just lucky and can get away without FD_CLOEXEC because our pipe()s are
> non-inheritable and async only work with pipes. But once we pass other fds to
> the async procedure, we need a working FD_CLOEXEC. Perhaps something in this
> direction is related to your problem.
>
> You could push out your current state of the git-daemon and a recipe to
> reproduce the problem. Perhaps I find some time to look into it.
>