From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:18:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] upload-archive: fix infinite loop on Cygwin
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0906181817400.2474@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4A38C13E.6050800@lsrfire.ath.cx>

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, René Scharfe wrote:

> 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.

I think it isn't just Cygwin that does this - see
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2001/06/poll.html

Tony.
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