From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 23:11:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] diff: Let "git diff -O" read orderfile from any file, fail properly
Message-ID: <xmqqvbynkr8e.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALWbr2zXNF-aJHHnBnW1q1yaCmWt-rmMWypBWFanTBAK1pMWiQ@mail.gmail.com>

Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm not sure about the deadlock though. Both read and write will wait
> for each other to start operating on the fifo.

It is true only if the fifo already exists.  That is, if you did
this:

	a lot of &&
        commands &&
        before &&
        mkfifo fifo &&
        feed >fifo &

	git diff -Ofifo
        
the consumer may attempt to open and read fifo when the other
process is still running a lot of commands, no?

>
> You can probably fix the &&-chain by doing something like:
>
>     mkfifo order_fifo && {
>         cat order_file_$i >order_fifo &
>         git diff -O order_fifo --name-only HEAD^..HEAD >actual
>     } && ...
>
> Also, "rm -f order_fifo" should probably be done in test_when_finished
> rather than at the beginning of the test.
>
> Antoine,