Re: Bug report: orphaned pack-objects after killing upload-pack on [

> Yeah, clean_on_exit seems quite reasonable to me. I suspect nobody ever
> really noticed, because as soon as pack-objects starts to write out the
> pack, it will get SIGPIPE or EPIPE and die. But there is no point in
> letting it chug on expensive object enumeration or delta compression if
> upload-pack has already exited.
>
> I don't know that wait_after_clean is necessary. We don't need to wait
> for pack-objects to fail.
>
> On the flip side, one of the reasons I added clean_on_exit long ago was
> for the similar issue on the push side, which is even worse. Here we
> might just waste some CPU, but on the push side we connect pack-objects
> directly to the remote socket, so it could actually complete the push
> (from the server's perspective) after the local git-push has died. Or at
> least I think that was possible at one point; it might not be the case
> any more.
>
> I wrote this patch ages ago, and it is still sitting close to the bottom
> (if not the bottom) of my todo stack, waiting to be investigated. ;)

> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] send-pack: kill pack-objects helper on signal or exit
>
> We spawn an external pack-objects process to actually send
> objects to the remote side. If we are killed by a signal
> during this process, the pack-objects will keep running and
> complete the push, which may surprise the user. We should
> take it down when we go down.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
>  send-pack.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/send-pack.c b/send-pack.c
> index eb4a44270b..d2701bf35c 100644
> --- a/send-pack.c
> +++ b/send-pack.c
> @@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ static int pack_objects(int fd, struct ref *refs, struct oid_array *extra, struc
>  	po.in = -1;
>  	po.out = args->stateless_rpc ? -1 : fd;
>  	po.git_cmd = 1;
> +	po.clean_on_exit = 1;
>  	if (start_command(&po))
>  		die_errno("git pack-objects failed");