Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2025, #02; Mon, 7)

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:26:22 -0700

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 05:11:12PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> * cb/daemon-reap-children (2025-06-26) 4 commits
>>  - daemon: explicitly allow EINTR during poll()
>>  - daemon: use sigaction() to install child_handler()
>>  - compat/mingw: allow sigaction(SIGCHLD)
>>  - compat/posix.h: track SA_RESTART fallback
>> 
>>  Futz with SIGCHLD handling in "git daemon".
>> 
>>  Stalled?
>>  cf. <[email-masked]>
>>  source: <[email-masked]>
>
> I don't think so, but definitely missing reviews (specially for patch 2)

That is what I called Stalled---stalling does not have to be due to
author's inaction.

> and slightly controversial.
> ...
> On the rationale on why this is independently useful, note that we are
> currently relying in at least 2 "unspecified" behaviours:
>
> 1) using signal() means that it is implementation defined if SA_RESTART
> will be enabled or not for that signal, and
> 2) if SA_RESTART is enabled, it is implementation defined if we might get
> interrupted in poll().
>
> both are resolved by using sigaction() instead, and it is up to us to
> decide if SA_RESTART is enabled or not (which might make patch 4 obsolete
> if we decide against).
>
> Carlo
>
> CC: Johannes Sixt on feedback for SIGCHLD in mingw which uses 17 instead
>     of 22 (cygwin and others) and therefore seem to cause signal to err
>     without setting errno as it should.

Thanks.