Re: poll() emulation in git

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Il 06/09/2012 16:02, Joachim Schmitz ha scritto:
> 
> But is there something that could be done to make git work even without poll()?
> It is used in 5 places:
> 
> $ grep -n poll\( *.c */*.c
> credential-cache--daemon.c:175: if (poll(&pfd, 1, 1000 * wakeup) < 0) {
> daemon.c:1018:          if (poll(pfd, socklist->nr, -1) < 0) {
> help.c:361:                     poll(NULL, 0, autocorrect * 100);
> upload-pack.c:232:              if (poll(pfd, pollsize, -1) < 0) {
> builtin/upload-archive.c:125:           if (poll(pfd, 2, -1) < 0) {
> 
> Don't quite understand why in help.c it has that NULL, which should always result in an EFAULT and other than that basically is a
> NOP (at least in the poll() emulation)? Seems a usleep(autocorrect * 100) is meant to happen here instead?
> So I think here a poll() isn't needed at all. But also the 'broken' one shouldn't harm too much.

Yes, it's an usleep(autocorrect * 100000) basically (poll takes
milliseconds, not micro).

> ...
> # else
>       char data[64];
>       r = recv (fd, data, sizeof (data), MSG_PEEK);
>       socket_errno = (r < 0) ? errno : 0;
> # endif
>       if (r == 0)
>         happened |= POLLHUP;
> 
>       /* If the event happened on an unconnected server socket,
>          that's fine. */
>       else if (r > 0 || ( /* (r == -1) && */ socket_errno == ENOTCONN))
>         happened |= (POLLIN | POLLRDNORM) & sought;
> 
>       /* Distinguish hung-up sockets from other errors.  */
>       else if (socket_errno == ESHUTDOWN || socket_errno == ECONNRESET
>                || socket_errno == ECONNABORTED || socket_errno == ENETRESET)
>         happened |= POLLHUP;
> 
> #ifdef __TANDEM /* as we can't recv(...,MSG_PEEK) on a non-socket */
>       else if (socket_errno == ENOTSOCK)
>         happened |= (POLLIN | POLLRDNORM) & sought;
> #endif
>       else
>         happened |= POLLERR;
>     }
> ...
> 
> We won't detect POLLHUP that way I think. However it seems to work, we've been able to clone, push, pull, branch that way with
> NonStop being the (ssh-)server, something that didn't work at all without that hack (and yes, I believe it is just that).
> Someone in for a cleaner way of managing this?

I suppose it works to always handle ENOTSOCK that way, even on
non-__TANDEM systems.

Paolo
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