Re: [PATCH] remote-curl: don't hang when a server dies before any output

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 18, 2016, 18:28 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqlgwgmylk.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161118170147.g7nbkxpyihwkk6fw@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So I don't feel like we have a good patch for the general case yet, and
> I'm probably not going to get around to implementing it anytime soon. So
> I'd suggest taking David's original patch (to punt when the response is
> empty) in the meantime.

Yup, we are on the same page; the above matches what I wrote in the draft of the next issue of What's cooking report last night.

> I do think the commit message could be improved based on the discussion
> here, though (at the very least to describe the nature of the deadlock,
> and that we are choosing only one of the possible solutions, and why).

Thanks.  That sounds sensible.