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authorThomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>2013-04-04 22:41:41 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-04-04 14:49:39 -0700
commitbd4ca09d4cddc226ece1bb5b40a74ba281f3e00e (patch)
treee504d4f9e7d96ad4256189af0da7a9879fbd6d6d /perl
parent3a3101c62ecfbde184934f590bab5d84d7ae64a0 (diff)
downloadgit-bd4ca09d4cddc226ece1bb5b40a74ba281f3e00e.tar.gz
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.pm6
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);
}