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2015-08-10tempfile: a new module for handling temporary filesLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-245/+16
A lot of work went into defining the state diagram for lockfiles and ensuring correct, race-resistant cleanup in all circumstances. Most of that infrastructure can be applied directly to *any* temporary file. So extract a new "tempfile" module from the "lockfile" module. Reimplement lockfile on top of tempfile. Subsequent commits will add more users of the new module. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-10commit_lock_file(): use get_locked_file_path()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-16/+12
First beef up the sanity checking in get_locked_file_path() to match that in commit_lock_file(). Then rewrite commit_lock_file() to use get_locked_file_path() for its pathname computation. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-10lockfile: add accessor get_lock_file_path()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+7
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-10lockfile: add accessors get_lock_file_fd() and get_lock_file_fp()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+14
We are about to move those members, so change client code to read them through accessor functions. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-10lockfile: move documentation to lockfile.h and lockfile.cLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+53
Rearrange/rewrite it somewhat to fit its new environment. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22Merge branch 'jc/ignore-epipe-in-filter'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Filter scripts were run with SIGPIPE disabled on the Git side, expecting that they may not read what Git feeds them to filter. We however treated a filter that does not read its input fully before exiting as an error. This changes semantics, but arguably in a good way. If a filter can produce its output without consuming its input using whatever magic, we now let it do so, instead of diagnosing it as a programming error. * jc/ignore-epipe-in-filter: filter_buffer_or_fd(): ignore EPIPE copy.c: make copy_fd() report its status silently
2015-05-19copy.c: make copy_fd() report its status silentlyLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
When copy_fd() function encounters errors, it emits error messages itself, which makes it impossible for callers to take responsibility for reporting errors, especially when they want to ignore certain errors. Move the error reporting to its callers in preparation. - copy_file() and copy_file_with_time() by indirection get their own calls to error(). - hold_lock_file_for_append(), when told to die on error, used to exit(128) relying on the error message from copy_fd(), but now it does its own die() instead. Note that the callers that do not pass LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR need to be adjusted for this change, but fortunately there is none ;-) - filter_buffer_or_fd() has its own error() already, in addition to the message from copy_fd(), so this will change the output but arguably in a better way. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-14lockfile: allow file locking to be retried with a timeoutLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-2/+77
Currently, there is only one attempt to lock a file. If it fails, the whole operation fails. But it might sometimes be advantageous to try acquiring a file lock a few times before giving up. So add a new function, hold_lock_file_for_update_timeout(), that allows a timeout to be specified. Make hold_lock_file_for_update() a thin wrapper around the new function. If timeout_ms is positive, then retry for at least that many milliseconds to acquire the lock. On each failed attempt, use select() to wait for a backoff time that increases quadratically (capped at 1 second) and has a random component to prevent two processes from getting synchronized. If timeout_ms is negative, retry indefinitely. In a moment we will switch to using the new function when locking packed-refs. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-03lockfile.c: store absolute pathLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-3/+11
Locked paths can be saved in a linked list so that if something wrong happens, *.lock are removed. For relative paths, this works fine if we keep cwd the same, which is true 99% of time except: - update-index and read-tree hold the lock on $GIT_DIR/index really early, then later on may call setup_work_tree() to move cwd. - Suppose a lock is being held (e.g. by "git add") then somewhere down the line, somebody calls real_path (e.g. "link_alt_odb_entry"), which temporarily moves cwd away and back. During that time when cwd is moved (either permanently or temporarily) and we decide to die(), attempts to remove relative *.lock will fail, and the next operation will complain that some files are still locked. Avoid this case by turning relative paths to absolute before storing the path in "filename" field. Reported-by: Yue Lin Ho <yuelinho777@gmail.com> Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Adapted-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-15lockfile: remove unable_to_lock_errorLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-10/+0
The former caller uses unable_to_lock_message now. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-14Merge branch 'mh/lockfile-stdio'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+41
* mh/lockfile-stdio: commit_packed_refs(): reimplement using fdopen_lock_file() dump_marks(): reimplement using fdopen_lock_file() fdopen_lock_file(): access a lockfile using stdio
2014-10-14Merge branch 'mh/lockfile'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-131/+153
The lockfile API and its users have been cleaned up. * mh/lockfile: (38 commits) lockfile.h: extract new header file for the functions in lockfile.c hold_locked_index(): move from lockfile.c to read-cache.c hold_lock_file_for_append(): restore errno before returning get_locked_file_path(): new function lockfile.c: rename static functions lockfile: rename LOCK_NODEREF to LOCK_NO_DEREF commit_lock_file_to(): refactor a helper out of commit_lock_file() trim_last_path_component(): replace last_path_elm() resolve_symlink(): take a strbuf parameter resolve_symlink(): use a strbuf for internal scratch space lockfile: change lock_file::filename into a strbuf commit_lock_file(): use a strbuf to manage temporary space try_merge_strategy(): use a statically-allocated lock_file object try_merge_strategy(): remove redundant lock_file allocation struct lock_file: declare some fields volatile lockfile: avoid transitory invalid states git_config_set_multivar_in_file(): avoid call to rollback_lock_file() dump_marks(): remove a redundant call to rollback_lock_file() api-lockfile: document edge cases commit_lock_file(): rollback lock file on failure to rename ...
2014-10-08Merge branch 'sp/stream-clean-filter'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
When running a required clean filter, we do not have to mmap the original before feeding the filter. Instead, stream the file contents directly to the filter and process its output. * sp/stream-clean-filter: sha1_file: don't convert off_t to size_t too early to avoid potential die() convert: stream from fd to required clean filter to reduce used address space copy_fd(): do not close the input file descriptor mmap_limit: introduce GIT_MMAP_LIMIT to allow testing expected mmap size memory_limit: use git_env_ulong() to parse GIT_ALLOC_LIMIT config.c: add git_env_ulong() to parse environment variable convert: drop arguments other than 'path' from would_convert_to_git()
2014-10-01fdopen_lock_file(): access a lockfile using stdioLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-5/+41
Add a new function, fdopen_lock_file(), which returns a FILE pointer open to the lockfile. If a stream is open on a lock_file object, it is closed using fclose() on commit, rollback, or close_lock_file(). This change will allow callers to use stdio to write to a lockfile without having to muck around in the internal representation of the lock_file object (callers will be rewritten in upcoming commits). Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01lockfile.h: extract new header file for the functions in lockfile.cLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-51/+1
Move the interface declaration for the functions in lockfile.c from cache.h to a new file, lockfile.h. Add #includes where necessary (and remove some redundant includes of cache.h by files that already include builtin.h). Move the documentation of the lock_file state diagram from lockfile.c to the new header file. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01hold_locked_index(): move from lockfile.c to read-cache.cLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-8/+0
lockfile.c contains the general API for locking any file. Code specifically about the index file doesn't belong here. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01hold_lock_file_for_append(): restore errno before returningLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+8
Callers who don't pass LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR might want to examine errno to see what went wrong, so restore errno before returning. In fact this function only has one caller, add_to_alternates_file(), and it *does* use LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR, but, you know, think of future generations. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01get_locked_file_path(): new functionLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+9
Add a function to return the path of the file that is locked by a lock_file object. This reduces the knowledge that callers have to have about the lock_file layout. Suggested-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01lockfile.c: rename static functionsLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-5/+5
* remove_lock_file() -> remove_lock_files() * remove_lock_file_on_signal() -> remove_lock_files_on_signal() Suggested-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01lockfile: rename LOCK_NODEREF to LOCK_NO_DEREFLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+1
This makes it harder to misread the name as LOCK_NODE_REF. Suggested-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01commit_lock_file_to(): refactor a helper out of commit_lock_file()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-14/+26
commit_locked_index(), when writing to an alternate index file, duplicates (poorly) the code in commit_lock_file(). And anyway, it shouldn't have to know so much about the internal workings of lockfile objects. So extract a new function commit_lock_file_to() that does the work common to the two functions, and call it from both commit_lock_file() and commit_locked_index(). Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01trim_last_path_component(): replace last_path_elm()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-22/+16
Rewrite last_path_elm() to take a strbuf parameter and to trim off the last path name element in place rather than returning a pointer to the beginning of the last path name element. This simplifies the function a bit and makes it integrate better with its caller, which is now also strbuf-based. Rename the function accordingly and a bit less tersely. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01resolve_symlink(): take a strbuf parameterLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-35/+22
Change resolve_symlink() to take a strbuf rather than a string as parameter. This simplifies the code and removes an arbitrary pathname length restriction. It also means that lock_file's filename field no longer needs to be initialized to a large size. Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01resolve_symlink(): use a strbuf for internal scratch spaceLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-21/+12
Aside from shortening and simplifying the code, this removes another place where the path name length is arbitrarily limited. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01lockfile: change lock_file::filename into a strbufLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-29/+24
For now, we still make sure to allocate at least PATH_MAX characters for the strbuf because resolve_symlink() doesn't know how to expand the space for its return value. (That will be fixed in a moment.) Another alternative would be to just use a strbuf as scratch space in lock_file() but then store a pointer to the naked string in struct lock_file. But lock_file objects are often reused. By reusing the same strbuf, we can avoid having to reallocate the string most times when a lock_file object is reused. Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01commit_lock_file(): use a strbuf to manage temporary spaceLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-5/+7
Avoid relying on the filename length restrictions that are currently checked by lock_file(). Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01struct lock_file: declare some fields volatileLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+1
The function remove_lock_file_on_signal() is used as a signal handler. It is not realistic to make the signal handler conform strictly to the C standard, which is very restrictive about what a signal handler is allowed to do. But let's increase the likelihood that it will work: The lock_file_list global variable and several fields from struct lock_file are used by the signal handler. Declare those values "volatile" to (1) force the main process to write the values to RAM promptly, and (2) prevent updates to these fields from being reordered in a way that leaves an opportunity for a jump to the signal handler while the object is in an inconsistent state. We don't mark the filename field volatile because that would prevent the use of strcpy(), and it is anyway unlikely that a compiler re-orders a strcpy() call across other expressions. So in practice it should be possible to get away without "volatile" in the "filename" case. Suggested-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01lockfile: avoid transitory invalid statesLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-11/+26
Because remove_lock_file() can be called any time by the signal handler, it is important that any lock_file objects that are in the lock_file_list are always in a valid state. And since lock_file objects are often reused (but are never removed from lock_file_list), that means we have to be careful whenever mutating a lock_file object to always keep it in a well-defined state. This was formerly not the case, because part of the state was encoded by setting lk->filename to the empty string vs. a valid filename. It is wrong to assume that this string can be updated atomically; for example, even strcpy(lk->filename, value) is unsafe. But the old code was even more reckless; for example, strcpy(lk->filename, path); if (!(flags & LOCK_NODEREF)) resolve_symlink(lk->filename, max_path_len); strcat(lk->filename, ".lock"); During the call to resolve_symlink(), lk->filename contained the name of the file that was being locked, not the name of the lockfile. If a signal were raised during that interval, then the signal handler would have deleted the valuable file! We could probably continue to use the filename field to encode the state by being careful to write characters 1..N-1 of the filename first, and then overwrite the NUL at filename[0] with the first character of the filename, but that would be awkward and error-prone. So, instead of using the filename field to determine whether the lock_file object is active, add a new field "lock_file::active" for this purpose. Be careful to set this field only when filename really contains the name of a file that should be deleted on cleanup. Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01commit_lock_file(): rollback lock file on failure to renameLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+6
If rename() fails, call rollback_lock_file() to delete the lock file (in case it is still present) and reset the filename field to the empty string so that the lockfile object is left in a valid state. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01close_lock_file(): if close fails, roll backLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-10/+18
If closing an open lockfile fails, then we cannot be sure of the contents of the lockfile, so there is nothing sensible to do but delete it. This change also insures that the lock_file object is left in a defined state in this error path (namely, unlocked). The only caller that is ultimately affected by this change is try_merge_strategy() -> write_locked_index(), which can call close_lock_file() via various execution paths. This caller uses a static lock_file object which previously could have been reused after a failed close_lock_file() even though it was still in locked state. This change causes the lock_file object to be unlocked on failure, thus fixing this error-handling path. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01commit_lock_file(): die() if called for unlocked lockfile objectLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+3
It was previously a bug to call commit_lock_file() with a lock_file object that was not active (an illegal access would happen within the function). It was presumably never done, but this would be an easy programming error to overlook. So before continuing, do a consistency check that the lock_file object really is locked. Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01commit_lock_file(): inline temporary variableLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-3/+5
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01remove_lock_file(): call rollback_lock_file()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-6/+2
It does just what we need. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01lock_file(): exit early if lockfile cannot be openedLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-12/+11
This is a bit easier to read than the old version, which nested part of the non-error code in an "if" block. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01cache.h: define constants LOCK_SUFFIX and LOCK_SUFFIX_LENLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-5/+6
There are a few places that use these values, so define constants for them. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01lockfile.c: document the various states of lock_file objectsLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+42
Document the valid states of lock_file objects, how they get into each state, and how the state is encoded in the object's fields. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01lock_file(): always initialize and register lock_file objectLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-9/+16
The purpose of this change is to make the state diagram for lock_file objects simpler and deterministic. If locking fails, lock_file() sometimes leaves the lock_file object partly initialized, but sometimes not. It sometimes registers the object in lock_file_list, but sometimes not. This makes the state diagram for lock_file objects effectively indeterministic and hard to reason about. A future patch will also change the filename field into a strbuf, which needs more involved initialization, so it will become even more important that the state of a lock_file object is well-defined after a failed attempt to lock. The ambiguity doesn't currently have any ill effects, because lock_file objects cannot be removed from the lock_file_list anyway. But to make it easier to document and reason about the code, make this behavior consistent: *always* initialize the lock_file object and *always* register it in lock_file_list the first time it is used, regardless of whether an error occurs. While we're at it, make sure that all of the lock_file fields are initialized to values appropriate for an unlocked object; the caller is only responsible for making sure that on_list is set to zero before the first time it is used. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01hold_lock_file_for_append(): release lock on errorsLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-2/+2
If there is an error copying the old contents to the lockfile, roll back the lockfile before exiting so that the lockfile is not held until process cleanup. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01lockfile: unlock file if lockfile permissions cannot be adjustedLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+1
If the call to adjust_shared_perm() fails, lock_file returns -1, which to the caller looks like any other failure to lock the file. So in this case, roll back the lockfile before returning so that the lock file is deleted immediately and the lockfile object is left in a predictable state (namely, unlocked). Previously, the lockfile was retained until process cleanup in this situation. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01rollback_lock_file(): set fd to -1Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-2/+1
When rolling back the lockfile, call close_lock_file() so that the lock_file's fd field gets set back to -1. This keeps the lock_file object in a valid state, which is important because these objects are allowed to be reused. It also makes it unnecessary to check whether the file has already been closed, because close_lock_file() takes care of that. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01rollback_lock_file(): exit early if lock is not activeLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-6/+7
Eliminate a layer of nesting. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01rollback_lock_file(): do not clear filename redundantlyLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+1
It is only necessary to clear the lock_file's filename field if it was not already clear. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01close_lock_file(): exit (successfully) if file is already closedLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+5
Suggested-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01unable_to_lock_die(): rename function from unable_to_lock_index_die()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-3/+3
This function is used for other things besides the index, so rename it accordingly. Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-02Merge branch 'jc/reopen-lock-file'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+10
There are cases where you lock and open to write a file, close it to show the updated contents to external processes, and then have to update the file again while still holding the lock, but the lockfile API lacked support for such an access pattern. * jc/reopen-lock-file: lockfile: allow reopening a closed but still locked file
2014-08-28copy_fd(): do not close the input file descriptorLibravatar Steffen Prohaska1-0/+3
The caller, not this function, opened the file descriptor; it is selfish for the callee to close it when it is done reading from it. The caller may want an option to rewind and re-read the contents after it returns. Simplify the loop to copy the input in full to the output; its body essentially is what a call to write_in_full() helper does. Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-21Merge branch 'rs/ref-transaction-0'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-15/+24
Early part of the "ref transaction" topic. * rs/ref-transaction-0: refs.c: change ref_transaction_update() to do error checking and return status refs.c: remove the onerr argument to ref_transaction_commit update-ref: use err argument to get error from ref_transaction_commit refs.c: make update_ref_write update a strbuf on failure refs.c: make ref_update_reject_duplicates take a strbuf argument for errors refs.c: log_ref_write should try to return meaningful errno refs.c: make resolve_ref_unsafe set errno to something meaningful on error refs.c: commit_packed_refs to return a meaningful errno on failure refs.c: make remove_empty_directories always set errno to something sane refs.c: verify_lock should set errno to something meaningful refs.c: make sure log_ref_setup returns a meaningful errno refs.c: add an err argument to repack_without_refs lockfile.c: make lock_file return a meaningful errno on failurei lockfile.c: add a new public function unable_to_lock_message refs.c: add a strbuf argument to ref_transaction_commit for error logging refs.c: allow passing NULL to ref_transaction_free refs.c: constify the sha arguments for ref_transaction_create|delete|update refs.c: ref_transaction_commit should not free the transaction refs.c: remove ref_transaction_rollback
2014-07-14lockfile: allow reopening a closed but still locked fileLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+10
In some code paths (e.g. giving "add -i" to prepare the contents to be committed interactively inside "commit -p") where a caller takes a lock, writes the new content, give chance for others to use it while still holding the lock, and then releases the lock when all is done. As an extension, allow the caller to re-update an already closed file while still holding the lock (i.e. not yet committed) by re-opening the file, to be followed by updating the contents and then by the usual close_lock_file() or commit_lock_file(). This is necessary if we want to add code to rebuild the cache-tree and write the resulting index out after "add -i" returns the control to "commit -p", for example. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-14lockfile.c: make lock_file return a meaningful errno on failureiLibravatar Ronnie Sahlberg1-5/+12
Making errno when returning from lock_file() meaningful, which should fix * an existing almost-bug in lock_ref_sha1_basic where it assumes errno==ENOENT is meaningful and could waste some work on retries * an existing bug in repack_without_refs where it prints strerror(errno) and picks advice based on errno, despite errno potentially being zero and potentially having been clobbered by that point Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Acked-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2014-07-14lockfile.c: add a new public function unable_to_lock_messageLibravatar Ronnie Sahlberg1-10/+12
Introducing a new unable_to_lock_message helper, which has nicer semantics than unable_to_lock_error and cleans up lockfile.c a little. Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Acked-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>