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[PATCH] upload-archive: fix infinite loop on Cygwin

From
René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date
Jun 17, 2009, 10:11 UTC
Message-ID
<4A38C13E.6050800@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To
<4A156556.900@lsrfire.ath.cx>

On Cygwin, poll() reports POLLIN even for file descriptors that have reached their end. This caused git upload-archive to be stuck in an infinite loop, as it only looked at the POLLIN flag.

In addition to POLLIN, check if read() returned 0, which indicates end-of-file, and keep looping only as long as at least one of the file descriptors has input. This lets the following command finish on its own when run in a git repository on Cygwin, instead of it getting stuck after printing all file names:

	$ git archive -v --remote . HEAD >/dev/null
Reported-by: Bob Kagy <bobkagy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
---
This version of the patch has been cleaned up a bit compared to the
previous one and is slightly shorter, but does the same.
 builtin-upload-archive.c |   12 +++++++-----
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-upload-archive.c b/builtin-upload-archive.c
index 0206b41..c4cd1e1 100644
--- a/builtin-upload-archive.c
+++ b/builtin-upload-archive.c
@@ -80,16 +80,17 @@ static void error_clnt(const char *fmt, ...)
 	die("sent error to the client: %s", buf);
 }
 
-static void process_input(int child_fd, int band)
+static ssize_t process_input(int child_fd, int band)
 {
 	char buf[16384];
 	ssize_t sz = read(child_fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
 	if (sz < 0) {
 		if (errno != EAGAIN && errno != EINTR)
 			error_clnt("read error: %s\n", strerror(errno));
-		return;
+		return sz;
 	}
 	send_sideband(1, band, buf, sz, LARGE_PACKET_MAX);
+	return sz;
 }
 
 int cmd_upload_archive(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
@@ -131,6 +132,7 @@ int cmd_upload_archive(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	while (1) {
 		struct pollfd pfd[2];
+		ssize_t processed[2] = { 0, 0 };
 		int status;
 
 		pfd[0].fd = fd1[0];
@@ -147,12 +149,12 @@ int cmd_upload_archive(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		}
 		if (pfd[0].revents & POLLIN)
 			/* Data stream ready */
-			process_input(pfd[0].fd, 1);
+			processed[0] = process_input(pfd[0].fd, 1);
 		if (pfd[1].revents & POLLIN)
 			/* Status stream ready */
-			process_input(pfd[1].fd, 2);
+			processed[1] = process_input(pfd[1].fd, 2);
 		/* Always finish to read data when available */
-		if ((pfd[0].revents | pfd[1].revents) & POLLIN)
+		if (processed[0] || processed[1])
 			continue;
 
 		if (waitpid(writer, &status, 0) < 0)
-- 
1.6.3.2.307.g21cd0
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Message 5 of 6 in “git archive, cygwin, and --git-dir vs --remote”
  1. Bob KagyMay 18, 2009
  2. René ScharfeMay 21, 2009
  3. Tony FinchMay 21, 2009
  4. René ScharfeMay 21, 2009
  5. upload-archive: fix infinite loop on CygwinRené Scharfe, Jun 17, 2009
  6. Tony FinchJun 18, 2009

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