On 04/26/2012 11:00 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote: > The shell function that starts git-daemon wants to read the first line of > the daemon's stderr to ensure that it started correctly. Subsequent daemon > errors should be redirected to fd 4 (which is the terminal in verbose mode > or /dev/null in quiet mode). To that end the shell script used 'read' to > get the first line of output, and then 'cat &' to forward everything else > in a background process. > > The problem is, that 'cat >&4 &' does not produce any output because the > shell redirects a background process's stdin to /dev/null. To have this > command invocation do anything useful, we have to redirect its stdin > explicitly (which overrides the /dev/null redirection). > > The shell function connects the daemon's stderr to its consumers via a > FIFO. We cannot just do this: > > read line <git_daemon_output > cat <git_daemon_output >&4 & > > because after the first redirection the pipe is closed and the daemon > could receive SIGPIPE if it writes at the wrong moment. Therefore, we open > the readable end of the FIFO only once on fd 7 in the shell and dup from > there to the stdin of the two consumers. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> Beautiful explanation. Thanks! I can confirm that this fix works for me. - Zbyszek -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html