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2021-11-10simple-ipc: work around issues with Cygwin's Unix socket emulationLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+22
Cygwin emulates Unix sockets by writing files with custom contents and then marking them as system files. The tricky problem is that while the file is written and its `system` bit is set, it is still identified as a file. This caused test failures when Git is too fast looking for the Unix sockets and then complains that there is a plain file in the way. Let's work around this by adding a delayed retry loop, specifically for Cygwin. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Tested-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-20simple-ipc: preparations for supporting binary messages.Libravatar Jeff Hostetler1-5/+9
Add `command_len` argument to the Simple IPC API. In my original Simple IPC API, I assumed that the request would always be a null-terminated string of text characters. The `command` argument was just a `const char *`. I found a caller that would like to pass a binary command to the daemon, so I am amending the Simple IPC API to receive `const char *command, size_t command_len` arguments. I considered changing the `command` argument to be a `void *`, but the IPC layer simply passes it to the pkt-line layer which takes a `const char *`, so to avoid confusion I left it as is. Note, the response side has always been a `struct strbuf` which includes the buffer and length, so we already support returning a binary answer. (Yes, it feels a little weird returning a binary buffer in a `strbuf`, but it works.) Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-05-21simple-ipc: correct ifdefs when NO_PTHREADS is definedLibravatar Jeff Hostetler1-2/+6
Simple IPC always requires threads (in addition to various platform-specific IPC support). Fix the ifdefs in the Makefile to define SUPPORTS_SIMPLE_IPC when appropriate. Previously, the Unix version of the code would only verify that Unix domain sockets were available. This problem was reported here: https://lore.kernel.org/git/YKN5lXs4AoK%2FJFTO@coredump.intra.peff.net/T/#m08be8f1942ea8a2c36cfee0e51cdf06489fdeafc Reported-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-22simple-ipc: add Unix domain socket implementationLibravatar Jeff Hostetler1-0/+999
Create Unix domain socket based implementation of "simple-ipc". A set of `ipc_client` routines implement a client library to connect to an `ipc_server` over a Unix domain socket, send a simple request, and receive a single response. Clients use blocking IO on the socket. A set of `ipc_server` routines implement a thread pool to listen for and concurrently service client connections. The server creates a new Unix domain socket at a known location. If a socket already exists with that name, the server tries to determine if another server is already listening on the socket or if the socket is dead. If socket is busy, the server exits with an error rather than stealing the socket. If the socket is dead, the server creates a new one and starts up. If while running, the server detects that its socket has been stolen by another server, it automatically exits. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>