git/write_or_die.c
Jeff King 9658846ce3 write_or_die: handle EPIPE in async threads
When write_or_die() sees EPIPE, it treats it specially by
converting it into a SIGPIPE death. We obviously cannot
ignore it, as the write has failed and the caller expects us
to die. But likewise, we cannot just call die(), because
printing any message at all would be a nuisance during
normal operations.

However, this is a problem if write_or_die() is called from
a thread. Our raised signal ends up killing the whole
process, when logically we just need to kill the thread
(after all, if we are ignoring SIGPIPE, there is good reason
to think that the main thread is expecting to handle it).

Inside an async thread, the die() code already does the
right thing, because we use our custom die_async() routine,
which calls pthread_join(). So ideally we would piggy-back
on that, and simply call:

  die_quietly_with_code(141);

or similar. But refactoring the die code to do this is
surprisingly non-trivial. The die_routines themselves handle
both printing and the decision of the exit code. Every one
of them would have to be modified to take new parameters for
the code, and to tell us to be quiet.

Instead, we can just teach write_or_die() to check for the
async case and handle it specially. We do have to build an
interface to abstract the async exit, but it's simple and
self-contained. If we had many call-sites that wanted to do
this die_quietly_with_code(), this approach wouldn't scale
as well, but we don't. This is the only place where do this
weird exit trick.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-25 13:51:45 -08:00

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#include "cache.h"
#include "run-command.h"
static void check_pipe(int err)
{
if (err == EPIPE) {
if (in_async())
async_exit(141);
signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL);
raise(SIGPIPE);
/* Should never happen, but just in case... */
exit(141);
}
}
/*
* Some cases use stdio, but want to flush after the write
* to get error handling (and to get better interactive
* behaviour - not buffering excessively).
*
* Of course, if the flush happened within the write itself,
* we've already lost the error code, and cannot report it any
* more. So we just ignore that case instead (and hope we get
* the right error code on the flush).
*
* If the file handle is stdout, and stdout is a file, then skip the
* flush entirely since it's not needed.
*/
void maybe_flush_or_die(FILE *f, const char *desc)
{
static int skip_stdout_flush = -1;
struct stat st;
char *cp;
if (f == stdout) {
if (skip_stdout_flush < 0) {
cp = getenv("GIT_FLUSH");
if (cp)
skip_stdout_flush = (atoi(cp) == 0);
else if ((fstat(fileno(stdout), &st) == 0) &&
S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
skip_stdout_flush = 1;
else
skip_stdout_flush = 0;
}
if (skip_stdout_flush && !ferror(f))
return;
}
if (fflush(f)) {
check_pipe(errno);
die_errno("write failure on '%s'", desc);
}
}
void fprintf_or_die(FILE *f, const char *fmt, ...)
{
va_list ap;
int ret;
va_start(ap, fmt);
ret = vfprintf(f, fmt, ap);
va_end(ap);
if (ret < 0) {
check_pipe(errno);
die_errno("write error");
}
}
void fsync_or_die(int fd, const char *msg)
{
if (fsync(fd) < 0) {
die_errno("fsync error on '%s'", msg);
}
}
void write_or_die(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count)
{
if (write_in_full(fd, buf, count) < 0) {
check_pipe(errno);
die_errno("write error");
}
}
int write_or_whine_pipe(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count, const char *msg)
{
if (write_in_full(fd, buf, count) < 0) {
check_pipe(errno);
fprintf(stderr, "%s: write error (%s)\n",
msg, strerror(errno));
return 0;
}
return 1;
}
int write_or_whine(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count, const char *msg)
{
if (write_in_full(fd, buf, count) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: write error (%s)\n",
msg, strerror(errno));
return 0;
}
return 1;
}