Instead of writing warnings to stderr, write them to a log. Later, we'll
probably be daemonized, so writing to stderr will be pointless.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dtur...@twopensource.com>
---
Documentation/git-index-helper.txt | 3 +++
index-helper.c | 12 +++++++++++-
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-index-helper.txt
b/Documentation/git-index-helper.txt
index f853960..e144752 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-index-helper.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-index-helper.txt
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ command. The following commands are used to control the
daemon:
All commands and replies are terminated by a NUL byte.
+In the event of an error, messages may be written to
+$GIT_DIR/index-helper.log.
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/index-helper.c b/index-helper.c
index 6c8108f..e99109a 100644
--- a/index-helper.c
+++ b/index-helper.c
@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ static void share_index(struct index_state *istate, struct
shm *is)
if (shared_mmap_create(istate->mmap_size, &new_mmap,
git_path("shm-index-%s",
sha1_to_hex(istate->sha1))) < 0) {
- die("Failed to create shm-index file");
+ warning("Failed to create shm-index file");
+ exit(1);
}
@@ -324,8 +325,17 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
if (fd < 0)
die_errno(_("could not set up index-helper socket"));
+ if (detach) {
+ FILE *fp = fopen(git_path("index-helper.log"), "a");
+ if (!fp)
+ die("failed to open %s for writing",
+ git_path("index-helper.log"));
+ set_error_handle(fp);
+ }
+
if (detach && daemonize(&daemonized))
die_errno(_("unable to detach"));
+
loop(fd, idle_in_seconds);
close(fd);
--
2.4.2.767.g62658d5-twtrsrc
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