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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pager: exit without error on SIGPIPE
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 21:25:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqczxjhwgv.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo8h3hybf.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:45:56 -0800")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Sorry, but you still have lost me---I do not see if/why we even care
> about atexit codepath.  As far as the end users are concered, they
> are running "git" and observing the exit code from "git".  There,
> reporting that "git" was killed by SIGPIPE, instead of exiting
> normally, is not something they want to hear about after quitting
> their pager, and that is why the signal reception codepath matters.

(something I noticed that I left unsaid...)

On the other hand, "git" spawns not just pager but other
subprocesses (e.g. "hooks"), and it is entirely up to us what to do
with the exit code from them.  When we care about making an external
effect (e.g. post-$action hooks that are run for their side effects),
we can ignore their exit status just fine.

And I do not see why the "we waited before leaving, and noticed the
pager exited with non-zero status" that we could notice in the
atexit codepath has to be so special.  We _could_ (modulo the "exit
there is not portable" you noted) make our exit status reflect that,
but I do not think it is all that important a "failure" (as opposed
to, say, we tried to show a commit message but failed to recode it
into utf-8, or we tried to spawn the pager but failed to start a
process) to clobber _our_ exit status with pager's exit status.

So...


  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-02  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-15 16:15 git fails with a broken pipe when one quits the pager Vincent Lefevre
2021-01-29 23:48 ` [PATCH] pager: exit without error on SIGPIPE Denton Liu
2021-01-30  8:29   ` Johannes Sixt
2021-01-30 12:52     ` Johannes Sixt
2021-02-01 15:03   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-01 17:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-01 19:52       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-01 20:55         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-02  2:05           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-02  4:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-02  5:25               ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-02-02  7:45                 ` Johannes Sixt
2021-02-02 20:13                   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-02 22:15                     ` Johannes Sixt
2021-02-02 22:21                       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-03 17:07                         ` Johannes Sixt
2021-02-03 18:12                           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-04 15:10                           ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-02-03  2:45                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-03  2:54                   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-03  3:36                     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-03 17:19                     ` Johannes Sixt
2021-01-31  1:47 ` git fails with a broken pipe when one quits the pager Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-01-31  3:36   ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-01-31  3:47     ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-01-31 20:49     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-01 10:34       ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-02-01 11:33         ` Chris Torek
2021-02-01 12:36           ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-02-01 12:53             ` Chris Torek
2021-02-01 15:17               ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-02-01 15:00           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-01 12:10         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-01 14:48           ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-02-01 15:44             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-01 22:16               ` Johannes Sixt
2021-02-03  2:48                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-03 17:11                   ` Johannes Sixt
2021-02-03 15:26               ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-02-04  0:14                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-04 15:38                   ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-02-01 14:49           ` [PATCH 0/3] pager: test for exit behavior & trace2 bug fix Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-02  1:59             ` [PATCH v2 0/5] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-02  1:59             ` [PATCH v2 1/5] pager: refactor wait_for_pager() function Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-02  1:59             ` [PATCH v2 2/5] pager: test for exit code with and without SIGPIPE Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-02  8:50               ` Denton Liu
2021-02-05  7:47               ` Johannes Sixt
2021-02-02  1:59             ` [PATCH v2 3/5] run-command: add braces for "if" block in wait_or_whine() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-02  2:00             ` [PATCH v2 4/5] pager: properly log pager exit code when signalled Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-05  7:58               ` Johannes Sixt
2021-02-05 11:37                 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-02  2:00             ` [WIP/PATCH v2 5/5] WIP pager: respect exit code of pager over SIGPIPE Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-01 14:49           ` [PATCH 1/3] pager: test for exit code Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-01 14:49           ` [PATCH 2/3] pager: refactor wait_for_pager() function Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-01 14:49           ` [PATCH 3/3] pager: properly log pager exit code when signalled Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-01 18:07             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-01 19:21               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-01 18:15             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-01 19:23               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-02-01 22:04       ` git fails with a broken pipe when one quits the pager Johannes Sixt

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