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Re: [PATCH 17/18] gitweb: Prepare for cached error pages & better error page handling

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 10, 2010, 01:49 UTC
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"John 'Warthog9' Hawley" <warthog9@eaglescrag.net> writes:
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> To quote myself from an e-mail of mine:
> 
> 	I've got a hammer, it clearly solves all problems!
> 
> This is the prepatory work to set up a mechanism inside the
> caching engine to cache the error pages instead of throwing
> them straight out to the client.

There is no problem with capturing output of die_error, nor there is a problem with caching error pages (perhaps transiently in memory).

The problem is that subroutines calling die_error assum that it would exit ending subroutine that is responsible for generating current action; see "goto DONE_GITWEB" which should be "goto DONE_REQUEST", and which was "exit 0" some time ago at the end of die_error().

With caching error pages you want die_error to exit $actions{$action}->(), but not exit cache_fetch(). How do you intend to do it?

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> 
> This adds two functions:
> 
> die_error_cache() - this gets back called from die_error() so
> that the error message generated can be cached.
*How* die_error_cache() gets called back from die_error()?  I don't
see any changes to die_error(), or actually any calling sites for
die_error_cache() in the patch below.
 
> cacheDisplayErr() - this is a simplified version of cacheDisplay()
> that does an initial check, if the error page exists - display it
> and exit.  If not, return.
Errr... isn't it removed in _preceding_ patch?  WTF???
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> 
> Signed-off-by: John 'Warthog9' Hawley <warthog9@eaglescrag.net>
> ---
>  gitweb/lib/cache.pl |   52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gitweb/lib/cache.pl b/gitweb/lib/cache.pl
> index a8c902d..6cb82c8 100644
> --- a/gitweb/lib/cache.pl
> +++ b/gitweb/lib/cache.pl
> @@ -302,6 +302,36 @@ sub cacheUpdate {
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +sub die_error_cache {
> +	my ($output) = @_;
> +
> +	open(my $cacheFileErr, '>:utf8', "$fullhashpath.err");
> +	my $lockStatus = flock($cacheFileErr,LOCK_EX|LOCK_NB);
Why do you need to lock here?  A comment would be nice.
> +
> +	if (! $lockStatus ){
> +		if ( $areForked ){
Grrrr...
But if it is here to stay, a comment if you please.
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> +			exit(0);
> +		}else{
> +			return;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	# Actually dump the output to the proper file handler
> +	local $/ = undef;
> +	$|++;
Why not
  +	local $| = 1;
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> +	print $cacheFileErr "$output";
> +	$|--;
> +
> +	flock($cacheFileErr,LOCK_UN);
> +	close($cacheFileErr);
Closing file will unlock it.
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> +
> +	if ( $areForked ){
> +		exit(0);
> +	}else{
> +		return;

So die_error_cache would not actually work like "die" here and like die_error(), isn't it?

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> +	}
> +}
> +
>  
>  sub cacheWaitForUpdate {
>  	my ($action) = @_;
> @@ -380,6 +410,28 @@ EOF
>  	return;
>  }
>  
> +sub cacheDisplayErr {
> +
> +	return if ( ! -e "$fullhashpath.err" );
> +
> +	open($cacheFileErr, '<:utf8', "$fullhashpath.err");
> +	$lockStatus = flock($cacheFileErr,LOCK_SH|LOCK_NB);
> +
> +	if (! $lockStatus ){
> +		show_warning(
> +				"<p>".
> +				"<strong>*** Warning ***:</strong> Locking error when trying to lock error cache page, file $fullhashpath.err<br/>/\n".
esc_path
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> +				"This is about as screwed up as it gets folks - see your systems administrator for more help with this.".
> +				"<p>"
> +				);
> +	}
> +
> +	while( <$cacheFileErr> ){
> +		print $_;
> +	}

Why not 'print <$cacheFileErr>' (list context), like in insert_file() subroutine?

> +	exit(0);
> +}
Callsites?
Note: I have't read next commit yet.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  1. 00/18 Gitweb caching v8John 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  2. 01/18 gitweb: Prepare for splitting gitwebJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  3. Jakub NarebskiDec 9, 2010
  4. 02/18 gitweb: add output buffering and associated functionsJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  5. 03/18 gitweb: File based caching layer (from git.kernel.org)John 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  6. 04/18 gitweb: Minimal testing of gitweb cachingJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  7. 05/18 gitweb: Regression fix concerning binary output of filesJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  8. Jakub NarebskiDec 9, 2010
  9. 06/18 gitweb: Add more explicit means of disabling 'Generating...' pageJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  10. 07/18 gitweb: Revert back to $cache_enable vs. $caching_enabledJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  11. Jakub NarebskiDec 9, 2010
  12. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  13. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  14. 08/18 gitweb: Change is_cacheable() to return true alwaysJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  15. Jakub NarebskiDec 9, 2010
  16. 09/18 gitweb: Revert reset_output() back to original codeJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  17. Jakub NarebskiDec 9, 2010
  18. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  19. 10/18 gitweb: Adding isBinaryAction() and isFeedAction() to determine the action typeJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  20. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  21. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  22. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  23. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  24. 11/18 gitweb: add isDumbClient() checkJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  25. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  26. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  27. Junio C HamanoDec 11, 2010
  28. Jakub NarebskiDec 11, 2010
  29. J.H.Dec 11, 2010
  30. Jakub NarebskiDec 11, 2010
  31. 12/18 gitweb: Change file handles (in caching) to lexical variables as opposed to globsJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  32. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  33. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2010
  34. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  35. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  36. 13/18 gitweb: Add commented url & url hash to page footerJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  37. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  38. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  39. 14/18 gitweb: add print_transient_header() function for central header printingJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  40. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  41. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  42. 15/18 gitweb: Add show_warning() to display an immediate warning, with refreshJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  43. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  44. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  45. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  46. 16/18 gitweb: When changing output (STDOUT) change STDERR as wellJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  47. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  48. J.H.Dec 12, 2010
  49. Jakub NarebskiDec 12, 2010
  50. 17/18 gitweb: Prepare for cached error pages & better error page handlingJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  51. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  52. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  53. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  54. 18/18 gitweb: Add better error handling for gitweb cachingJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley, Dec 9, 2010
  55. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  56. Jakub NarebskiDec 9, 2010
  57. J.H.Dec 10, 2010
  58. Jakub NarebskiDec 10, 2010
  59. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2010
  60. J.H.Dec 10, 2010

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