Jens Lindström <jl@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>> Life would have been simpler if fd[1] was _always_ closed by >>> send_pack(), like in c20181e (start_command(), if .in/.out > 0, closes >>> file descriptors, not the callers - 2008-02-21). >> >> Yeah, that was also my first reaction when I saw the above three >> lines after reading the discussion that led to the diagnosis. > > If send_pack() always closes fd[1], then I believe "git send-pack > --stateless-rpc --helper-status" would die in print_helper_status(), > called after send_pack(), since fd[1] would be 1, to which > print_helper_status() will try to write. Ah, I obviously did not look far enough. Of course we could dup(2) the fd=1 to code it around, but it is not clear to me if it is worth it---your solution (v2) is clearer, so let's queue it with Acks we saw from Peff and Duy. Thanks. -- 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