[PATCH] t0008: avoid SIGPIPE race condition on fifo

, I saw it hanging in the second read. strace revealed that we were blocked on open(out). The patch below should fix it. I'm still not sure why the choice of shell matters; it may simply be a timing fluke that bash is more likely to hit for some reason. -- 8 -- Subject: [PATCH] t0008: avoid SIGPIPE

Re: [PATCH] t0008: avoid SIGPIPE race condition on fifo

Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: Subject: [PATCH] t0008: avoid SIGPIPE race condition on fifo To test check-ignore's --stdin feature, we use two fifos to send and receive data. We carefully keep a descriptor to its input open so that it does not receive EOF between input lines. However, we

Re: [PATCH] t0008: avoid SIGPIPE race condition on fifo

On Jul 12, 2013, at 6:35 AM, Jeff King p...@peff.net wrote: Subject: [PATCH] t0008: avoid SIGPIPE race condition on fifo Was able to complete a prove run with this patch. Many thanks. ~~ Brian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord

Re: [PATCH] t0008: avoid SIGPIPE race condition on fifo

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 09:23:54AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: In that case, check-ignore gets a SIGPIPE and dies. The outer shell then tries to open the output fifo but blocks indefinitely, because there is no writer. We can fix it by keeping a descriptor open through the whole