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| author |  Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> | 2013-04-04 22:41:41 +0200 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-04-04 14:49:39 -0700 |
| commit | bd4ca09d4cddc226ece1bb5b40a74ba281f3e00e (patch) | |
| tree | e504d4f9e7d96ad4256189af0da7a9879fbd6d6d /perl | |
| parent | mailmap: update Pasky's address (diff) | |
| download | tgif-bd4ca09d4cddc226ece1bb5b40a74ba281f3e00e.tar.xz | |
perl: redirect stderr to /dev/null instead of closing
On my system, t9100.1 triggers the following warning:
==352== Syscall param write(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s)
==352== at 0x57119C0: __write_nocancel (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56AC1D2: _IO_file_write@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56AC0B1: new_do_write (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56AD3B4: _IO_do_write@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56AD6FE: _IO_file_overflow@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56AE3D8: _IO_default_xsputn (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x56ACAA2: _IO_file_xsputn@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x5682133: buffered_vfprintf (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x567CE9D: vfprintf (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x5687096: fprintf (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
==352== by 0x4E7AC5: vreportf (usage.c:15)
==352== by 0x4E7B14: die_builtin (usage.c:38)
The actual complaint appears to be a bug in the underlying
implementation. What's interesting here is that it is apparently
_triggered_ by closing stderr, which results in (from strace)
write(2, "fatal: Needed a single revision\n", 32) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
write(2, "\0", 1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
Closing stderr is a bad idea anyway: there is a very real chance that
we print fatal error messages to some other file that just happens to
be opened on the now-free FD 2. So let's not do that.
As pointed out by Eric Wong (thanks), the initial close needs to go:
die() would again write nowhere if we close STDERR beforehand.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'perl')
| -rw-r--r-- | perl/Git.pm | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm index 57a17160f9..4778428830 100644 --- a/perl/Git.pm +++ b/perl/Git.pm @@ -1335,12 +1335,12 @@ sub _command_common_pipe { if (not defined $pid) { throw Error::Simple("open failed: $!"); } elsif ($pid == 0) { - if (defined $opts{STDERR}) { - close STDERR; - } if ($opts{STDERR}) { open (STDERR, '>&', $opts{STDERR}) or die "dup failed: $!"; + } elsif (defined $opts{STDERR}) { + open (STDERR, '>', '/dev/null') + or die "opening /dev/null failed: $!"; } _cmd_exec($self, $cmd, @args); } |