git/run-command.h
Jeff King c792d7b6ce run-command: teach async threads to ignore SIGPIPE
Async processes can be implemented as separate forked
processes, or as threads (depending on the NO_PTHREADS
setting). In the latter case, if an async thread gets
SIGPIPE, it takes down the whole process. This is obviously
bad if the main process was not otherwise going to die, but
even if we were going to die, it means the main process does
not have a chance to report a useful error message.

There's also the small matter that forked async processes
will not take the main process down on a signal, meaning git
will behave differently depending on the NO_PTHREADS
setting.

This patch fixes it by adding a new flag to "struct async"
to block SIGPIPE just in the async thread. In theory, this
should always be on (which makes async threads behave more
like async processes), but we would first want to make sure
that each async process we spawn is careful about checking
return codes from write() and would not spew endlessly into
a dead pipe. So let's start with it as optional, and we can
enable it for specific sites in future patches.

The natural name for this option would be "ignore_sigpipe",
since that's what it does for the threaded case. But since
that name might imply that we are ignoring it in all cases
(including the separate-process one), let's call it
"isolate_sigpipe". What we are really asking for is
isolation. I.e., not to have our main process taken down by
signals spawned by the async process. How that is
implemented is up to the run-command code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-20 13:33:53 -07:00

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#ifndef RUN_COMMAND_H
#define RUN_COMMAND_H
#ifndef NO_PTHREADS
#include <pthread.h>
#endif
#include "argv-array.h"
struct child_process {
const char **argv;
struct argv_array args;
struct argv_array env_array;
pid_t pid;
/*
* Using .in, .out, .err:
* - Specify 0 for no redirections (child inherits stdin, stdout,
* stderr from parent).
* - Specify -1 to have a pipe allocated as follows:
* .in: returns the writable pipe end; parent writes to it,
* the readable pipe end becomes child's stdin
* .out, .err: returns the readable pipe end; parent reads from
* it, the writable pipe end becomes child's stdout/stderr
* The caller of start_command() must close the returned FDs
* after it has completed reading from/writing to it!
* - Specify > 0 to set a channel to a particular FD as follows:
* .in: a readable FD, becomes child's stdin
* .out: a writable FD, becomes child's stdout/stderr
* .err: a writable FD, becomes child's stderr
* The specified FD is closed by start_command(), even in case
* of errors!
*/
int in;
int out;
int err;
const char *dir;
const char *const *env;
unsigned no_stdin:1;
unsigned no_stdout:1;
unsigned no_stderr:1;
unsigned git_cmd:1; /* if this is to be git sub-command */
unsigned silent_exec_failure:1;
unsigned stdout_to_stderr:1;
unsigned use_shell:1;
unsigned clean_on_exit:1;
};
#define CHILD_PROCESS_INIT { NULL, ARGV_ARRAY_INIT, ARGV_ARRAY_INIT }
void child_process_init(struct child_process *);
void child_process_clear(struct child_process *);
int start_command(struct child_process *);
int finish_command(struct child_process *);
int finish_command_in_signal(struct child_process *);
int run_command(struct child_process *);
/*
* Returns the path to the hook file, or NULL if the hook is missing
* or disabled. Note that this points to static storage that will be
* overwritten by further calls to find_hook and run_hook_*.
*/
extern const char *find_hook(const char *name);
LAST_ARG_MUST_BE_NULL
extern int run_hook_le(const char *const *env, const char *name, ...);
extern int run_hook_ve(const char *const *env, const char *name, va_list args);
#define RUN_COMMAND_NO_STDIN 1
#define RUN_GIT_CMD 2 /*If this is to be git sub-command */
#define RUN_COMMAND_STDOUT_TO_STDERR 4
#define RUN_SILENT_EXEC_FAILURE 8
#define RUN_USING_SHELL 16
#define RUN_CLEAN_ON_EXIT 32
int run_command_v_opt(const char **argv, int opt);
/*
* env (the environment) is to be formatted like environ: "VAR=VALUE".
* To unset an environment variable use just "VAR".
*/
int run_command_v_opt_cd_env(const char **argv, int opt, const char *dir, const char *const *env);
/**
* Execute the given command, capturing its stdout in the given strbuf.
* Returns -1 if starting the command fails or reading fails, and otherwise
* returns the exit code of the command. The output collected in the
* buffer is kept even if the command returns a non-zero exit. The hint field
* gives a starting size for the strbuf allocation.
*
* The fields of "cmd" should be set up as they would for a normal run_command
* invocation. But note that there is no need to set cmd->out; the function
* sets it up for the caller.
*/
int capture_command(struct child_process *cmd, struct strbuf *buf, size_t hint);
/*
* The purpose of the following functions is to feed a pipe by running
* a function asynchronously and providing output that the caller reads.
*
* It is expected that no synchronization and mutual exclusion between
* the caller and the feed function is necessary so that the function
* can run in a thread without interfering with the caller.
*/
struct async {
/*
* proc reads from in; closes it before return
* proc writes to out; closes it before return
* returns 0 on success, non-zero on failure
*/
int (*proc)(int in, int out, void *data);
void *data;
int in; /* caller writes here and closes it */
int out; /* caller reads from here and closes it */
#ifdef NO_PTHREADS
pid_t pid;
#else
pthread_t tid;
int proc_in;
int proc_out;
#endif
int isolate_sigpipe;
};
int start_async(struct async *async);
int finish_async(struct async *async);
int in_async(void);
void NORETURN async_exit(int code);
#endif