On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:13:03AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> > Another by the way, this "forcing aliases as external commands" now >> > shows something like "error: git-log died of signal 13" when the pager >> > exits early, for an alias like "l1 = log --oneline". >> >> ... and we do not show that when we directly call "git log" is...? >> >> We do signal this with non-zero exit status like so: >> >> $ GIT_PAGER=true git log --oneline ; echo $? >> 141 >> >> and it is not surprising that the one that is catching the exit >> status of what was spawned and reporting "signal 13". > > This sounded very familiar. Apparently I've been running with the patch > below for almost 3 years and never got around to re-examining it. > > The original discussion is in: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/212630 > > Having skimmed through the arguments there, and given that we applied > the patch from the middle of the thread, I think this is a good change. Yep. The new thing here is the "died of" message now also comes from execv_dashed_external() for non-external aliases, so it can show up a lot more often. I wasn't sure if excluding SIGPIPE in wait_and_whine was safe. But I _guess_ it is, based on your having no problem with the patch for a long time and the past discussion. > > -- >8 -- > Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 07:19:35 -0500 > Subject: [PATCH] avoid SIGPIPE warnings for aliases > > When git executes an alias that specifies an external > command, it will complain if the alias dies due to a signal. > This is usually a good thing, as signal deaths are > unexpected. However, SIGPIPE is not unexpected for many > commands which produce a lot of output; it is intended that > the user closing the pager would kill them them via SIGPIPE. > > As a result, the user might see annoying messages in a > scenario like this: > > $ cat ~/.gitconfig > [alias] > lgbase = log --some-options > lg = !git lgbase --more-options > lg2 = !git lgbase --other-options > > $ git lg -p > [user hits 'q' to exit pager] > error: git lgbase --more-options died of signal 13 > fatal: While expanding alias 'lg': 'git lgbase --more-options': Success > > Many users won't see this, because we execute the external > command with the shell, and a POSIX shell will silently > rewrite the signal-death exit code into 128+signal, and we > will treat it like a normal exit code. However, this does > not always happen: > > 1. If the sub-command does not have shell metacharacters, > we will skip the shell and exec it directly, getting > the signal code. > > 2. Some shells do not do this rewriting; for example, > setting SHELL_PATH set to zsh will reveal this problem. > > This patch squelches the message, and lets git exit silently > (with the same exit code that a shell would use in case of a > signal). > > The first line of the message comes from run-command's > wait_or_whine. To silence that message, we remain quiet > anytime we see SIGPIPE. > > The second line comes from handle_alias itself. It calls > die_errno whenever run_command returns a negative value. > However, only -1 indicates a syscall error where errno has > something useful (note that it says the useless "success" > above). Instead, we treat negative returns from run_command > (except for -1) as a normal code to be passed to exit. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > --- > git.c | 2 +- > run-command.c | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/git.c b/git.c > index 6ed824c..34a18a3 100644 > --- a/git.c > +++ b/git.c > @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv) > alias_argv[argc] = NULL; > > ret = run_command_v_opt(alias_argv, RUN_USING_SHELL); > - if (ret >= 0) /* normal exit */ > + if (ret != -1) /* normal exit */ > exit(ret); > > die_errno("While expanding alias '%s': '%s'", > diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c > index 13fa452..694a6ff 100644 > --- a/run-command.c > +++ b/run-command.c > @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static int wait_or_whine(pid_t pid, const char *argv0, int in_signal) > error("waitpid is confused (%s)", argv0); > } else if (WIFSIGNALED(status)) { > code = WTERMSIG(status); > - if (code != SIGINT && code != SIGQUIT) > + if (code != SIGINT && code != SIGQUIT && code != SIGPIPE) > error("%s died of signal %d", argv0, code); > /* > * This return value is chosen so that code & 0xff > -- > 2.7.0.rc2.368.g1cbb535 > -- Duy -- 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