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Create a wrapper class for `unix_stream_listen()` that uses a ".lock"
lockfile to create the unix domain socket in a race-free manner.
Unix domain sockets have a fundamental problem on Unix systems because
they persist in the filesystem until they are deleted. This is
independent of whether a server is actually listening for connections.
Well-behaved servers are expected to delete the socket when they
shutdown. A new server cannot easily tell if a found socket is
attached to an active server or is leftover cruft from a dead server.
The traditional solution used by `unix_stream_listen()` is to force
delete the socket pathname and then create a new socket. This solves
the latter (cruft) problem, but in the case of the former, it orphans
the existing server (by stealing the pathname associated with the
socket it is listening on).
We cannot directly use a .lock lockfile to create the socket because
the socket is created by `bind(2)` rather than the `open(2)` mechanism
used by `tempfile.c`.
As an alternative, we hold a plain lockfile ("<path>.lock") as a
mutual exclusion device. Under the lock, we test if an existing
socket ("<path>") is has an active server. If not, we create a new
socket and begin listening. Then we use "rollback" to delete the
lockfile in all cases.
This wrapper code conceptually exists at a higher-level than the core
unix_stream_connect() and unix_stream_listen() routines that it
consumes. It is isolated in a wrapper class for clarity.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Contributed Software Although these pieces are available as part of the official git source tree, they are in somewhat different status. The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them, and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved faster. I am not expecting to touch these myself that much. As far as my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are owned by their respective primary authors. I am willing to help if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners" have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree owners. IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch. If you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer). This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the drill. I expect that things that start their life in the contrib/ area to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory. On the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused and inactive ones from time to time. If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves there are some general interests (it does not have to be a list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport), submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your stuff there. -jc