Paul Tarjan ec4e5b9310 fsmonitor: close inherited file descriptors and detach in daemon ...

When the fsmonitor daemon is spawned as a background process, it may
inherit file descriptors from its parent that it does not need.  In
particular, when the test harness or a CI system captures output through
pipes, the daemon can inherit duplicated pipe endpoints.  If the daemon
holds these open, the parent process never sees EOF and may appear to
hang.

Set close_fd_above_stderr on the child process at both daemon startup
paths: the explicit "fsmonitor--daemon start" command and the implicit
spawn triggered by fsmonitor-ipc when a client finds no running daemon.
Also suppress stdout and stderr on the implicit spawn path to prevent
the background daemon from writing to the client's terminal.

Additionally, call setsid() when the daemon starts with --detach to
create a new session and process group.  This prevents the daemon
from being part of the spawning shell's process group, which could
cause the shell's "wait" to block until the daemon exits.

Signed-off-by: Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2026-04-09 10:59:28 -07:00

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