This allows bidirectional piping - useful for "-x -" to avoid commandline arguments - and is a step toward bypassing the shell. Signed-off-by: Scott Lamb <slamb@xxxxxxxxx> --- contrib/fast-import/git-p4 | 23 ++++++++++++++++++----- 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 index d877150..d93e656 100755 --- a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 +++ b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 @@ -63,21 +63,34 @@ def system(cmd): if os.system(cmd) != 0: die("command failed: %s" % cmd) -def p4CmdList(cmd): +def p4CmdList(cmd, stdin=None, stdin_mode='w+b'): cmd = "p4 -G %s" % cmd if verbose: sys.stderr.write("Opening pipe: %s\n" % cmd) - pipe = os.popen(cmd, "rb") + + # Use a temporary file to avoid deadlocks without + # subprocess.communicate(), which would put another copy + # of stdout into memory. + stdin_file = None + if stdin is not None: + stdin_file = tempfile.TemporaryFile(prefix='p4-stdin', mode=stdin_mode) + stdin_file.write(stdin) + stdin_file.flush() + stdin_file.seek(0) + + p4 = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, + stdin=stdin_file, + stdout=subprocess.PIPE) result = [] try: while True: - entry = marshal.load(pipe) + entry = marshal.load(p4.stdout) result.append(entry) except EOFError: pass - exitCode = pipe.close() - if exitCode != None: + exitCode = p4.wait() + if exitCode != 0: entry = {} entry["p4ExitCode"] = exitCode result.append(entry) -- 1.5.2.2.238.g7cbf2f2-dirty - 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