From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:13:20 GMT
Subject: Re: git-upload-pack: the timeout gets corrupted?!
Message-ID: <45F3C830.8090301@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7m4wcfb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 
>> ...  Going in with gdb, it appears the "timeout"
>> variable gets overwritten:
>>
>> (gdb) p timeout
>> $1 = 608471321
>>
>> ... which should have been 600.
> 
> I do not see offhand what can cause this.  The only new code
> since 1.4.4 series is "shallow clone" stuff,...
> 
>> The process spends effectively forever waiting in on the fflush() in
>> show_commit() (in upload-pack.c); /proc/*/fd shows it is trying to
>> write to a pipe, but I'm not sure what is at the other end of that
>> same pipe.
> 
> The process forks and the one that runs show_commit() is running
> rev-list internally while the other end is a pack-objects that
> reads from it and sends its output back to the client.
> 

Yup; the pack-objects process has apparently died.

	-hpa