# [PATCH] Fix condition for redirecting stderr

3 messages from 2018-04-03 to 2018-04-09. Participants: Lucas Werkmeister, Todd Zullinger.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/48218

## Lucas Werkmeister, 2018-04-03 22:13

Subject: [PATCH] Fix condition for redirecting stderr
Message-ID: <20180403221307.29194-1-mail@lucaswerkmeister.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20180403221307.29194-1-mail%40lucaswerkmeister.de

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Since the --log-destination option was added in 0c591cacb ("daemon: add
--log-destination=(stderr|syslog|none)", 2018-02-04) with the explicit
goal of allowing logging to stderr when running in inetd mode, we should
not always redirect stderr to /dev/null in inetd mode, but rather only
when stderr is not being used for logging.

Signed-off-by: Lucas Werkmeister <mail@lucaswerkmeister.de>
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Notes:
    I have to apologize to the list here… even though I proposed this
    option with the goal of using it on my server, for some reason I
    decided to only use it there after the next Git release had come
    out, and didn’t test it anywhere else. The code looked okay, but I
    missed this part near the end of daemon.c that made it ineffective,
    rendering the feature broken in the 2.17.0 release and making me
    look like an idiot :/ sorry, everyone.
    
    For what it’s worth, with this fix the feature appears to work as
    intended (I *have* tested it on my server now and log messages from
    git-daemon show up in the journal as intended, attributed to the
    correct unit and everything).

 daemon.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c
index fe833ea7d..9d2e0d20e 100644
--- a/daemon.c
+++ b/daemon.c
@@ -1459,7 +1459,7 @@ int cmd_main(int argc, const char **argv)
 		die("base-path '%s' does not exist or is not a directory",
 		    base_path);
 
-	if (inetd_mode) {
+	if (log_destination != LOG_DESTINATION_STDERR) {
 		if (!freopen("/dev/null", "w", stderr))
 			die_errno("failed to redirect stderr to /dev/null");
 	}
-- 
2.16.3


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## Todd Zullinger, 2018-04-09 02:23

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix condition for redirecting stderr
Message-ID: <20180409022303.GS29680@zaya.teonanacatl.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20180409022303.GS29680%40zaya.teonanacatl.net
In-Reply-To: <20180403221307.29194-1-mail@lucaswerkmeister.de>

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Lucas Werkmeister wrote:
> Since the --log-destination option was added in 0c591cacb ("daemon: add
> --log-destination=(stderr|syslog|none)", 2018-02-04) with the explicit
> goal of allowing logging to stderr when running in inetd mode, we should
> not always redirect stderr to /dev/null in inetd mode, but rather only
> when stderr is not being used for logging.

Perhaps 's/^F/daemon: f/' on the subject?  (Junio may well
already have done so while queueing locally.)

The patch itself looks reasonable (to my relatively untrained eyes).

-- 
Todd
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hardware:  the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
    -- Jeff Pesis


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## Lucas Werkmeister, 2018-04-09 20:09

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix condition for redirecting stderr
Message-ID: <02f500d5-6038-a7c1-cd42-aadf33562818@lucaswerkmeister.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/02f500d5-6038-a7c1-cd42-aadf33562818%40lucaswerkmeister.de
In-Reply-To: <20180409022303.GS29680@zaya.teonanacatl.net>

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On 09.04.2018 04:23, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Lucas Werkmeister wrote:
>> Since the --log-destination option was added in 0c591cacb ("daemon: add
>> --log-destination=(stderr|syslog|none)", 2018-02-04) with the explicit
>> goal of allowing logging to stderr when running in inetd mode, we should
>> not always redirect stderr to /dev/null in inetd mode, but rather only
>> when stderr is not being used for logging.
> 
> Perhaps 's/^F/daemon: f/' on the subject?  (Junio may well
> already have done so while queueing locally.)

Indeed, sorry! Looks like Junio fixed it on his end (going by the
“what’s cooking” email), so I won’t reroll. (But I can at least set up a
local commit-msg hook to make sure I don’t forget the subject area again.)

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