Re: [PATCH] http-backend: Don't infinite loop during die()

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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> If stdout has already been closed by the CGI and die() gets called,
> the CGI will fail to write the "Status: 500 Internal Server Error" to
> the pipe, which results in die() being called again (via safe_write).
> This goes on in an infinite loop until the stack overflows and the
> process is killed by SIGSEGV.

Before looking at the code I first thought "wouldn't we have the same
problem in die(), and shouldn't we have "dying" flag there?" but I was
stupid as usual ;-)

The patch looks sane.  Thanks.
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