Re: Clean termination of remote-helpers (was Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add a remote helper to interact with mediawiki (fetch & push))

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Heya,

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 14:33, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was expecting this part to be more controversial, so I'm just
> repeating it to draw more attention ;-).

Eek! :)

> # Inform Git that we're done, otherwise Git won't close it's stdin,
> # and the next loop will be infinite.
> close(STDOUT);
> # Flush stdin before we terminate. If we don't, git fetch
> # (transport-helper.c's sendline function) will try to write to our
> # stdin, which may be closed, and git fetch will be killed. That's
> # probably a bug in transport-helper.c, but in the meantime ...
> while (<STDIN>) {};

Is this caused by you not reading the terminating '\n' that git sends
when all commands are done? We previously didn't do this for imports
(we couldn't, hence the new import/done behavior), so perhaps you just
need to fix that? It's entirely possible you've found a bug though.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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