Hi, I've been hit by c1f2aa45b (send-email: add --confirm option and configuration setting) running git send-email from a cron job. The problem is that the cron job is ran non-interactively, and therefore the confirmation question in git-send-email.perl goes infinite loop: while (1) { chomp ($_ = $term->readline( "Send this email? ([y]es|[n]o|[q]uit|[a]ll): " )); print "answer=$_.\n"; last if /^(?:yes|y|no|n|quit|q|all|a)/i; print "\n"; } Infinite loop is bad, but it gets even worse since this prints error messages to stdout, and therefore to a log file in the case of my script. In short, I woke up this morning with a file filling my disk with print() on closed filehandle FOUT at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Term/ReadLine.pm line 193. readline() on closed filehandle FIN at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Term/ReadLine.pm line 395. print() on closed filehandle FOUT at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Term/ReadLine.pm line 203. Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at /home/moy/local/usr/libexec/git-core//git-send-email line 856. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /home/moy/local/usr/libexec/git-core//git-send-email line 859. print() on closed filehandle FOUT at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Term/ReadLine.pm line 193. readline() on closed filehandle FIN at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Term/ReadLine.pm line 395. print() on closed filehandle FOUT at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Term/ReadLine.pm line 203. Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at /home/moy/local/usr/libexec/git-core//git-send-email line 856. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /home/moy/local/usr/libexec/git-core//git-send-email line 859. ... I think, non-interactive runs of send-email should assume "yes" instead of prompting. In any case, it should not do infinite loop (I guess I don't have to argue for this ;-) ) Can someone more fluent in perl than me add a if(session-is-interactive) { ... } around this confirmation prompt? (side-note : there is indeed some code to handle the cases where the terminal doesn't work with readline, added by Junio in 280242d1, but the FakeTerm part doesn't seem to be executed in my case: my $term = eval { $ENV{"GIT_SEND_EMAIL_NOTTY"} ? new Term::ReadLine 'git-send-email', \*STDIN, \*STDOUT : new Term::ReadLine 'git-send-email'; }; if ($@) { $term = new FakeTerm "$@: going non-interactive"; } ) (in the meantime, I'll add --confirm never to my script) Thanks, -- Matthieu -- 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