user/sven/git.git/run-command.h, branch v2.26.0-rc2

run-command.h: fix mis-indented struct member

2020-02-22T17:05:34Z

An accidental conversion of a tab to 4 spaces snuck into 4c4066d95d (run-command: move doc to run-command.h, 2019-11-17), messing up the alignment when you have the project-recommended 8-width tabstops. Let's revert that line. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

run-command: move doc to run-command.h

2019-11-18T06:21:29Z

Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt to run-command.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

*.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using sed

2019-05-05T06:20:08Z

There has been a push to remove extern from function declarations. Finish the job by removing all instances of "extern" for function declarations in headers using sed. This was done by running the following on my system with sed 4.2.2: $ git ls-files \*.{c,h} | grep -v ^compat/ | xargs sed -i'' -e 's/^$\s*$extern $[^(]*([^*]$/\1\2/' Files under `compat/` are intentionally excluded as some are directly copied from external sources and we should avoid churning them as much as possible. Then, leftover instances of extern were found by running $ git grep -w -C3 extern \*.{c,h} and manually checking the output. No other instances were found. Note that the regex used specifically excludes function variables which _should_ be left as extern. Not the most elegant way to do it but it gets the job done. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

*.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using spatch

2019-05-05T06:20:06Z

There has been a push to remove extern from function declarations. Remove some instances of "extern" for function declarations which are caught by Coccinelle. Note that Coccinelle has some difficulty with processing functions with `__attribute__` or varargs so some `extern` declarations are left behind to be dealt with in a future patch. This was the Coccinelle patch used: @@ type T; identifier f; @@ - extern T f(...); and it was run with: $ git ls-files \*.{c,h} | grep -v ^compat/ | xargs spatch --sp-file contrib/coccinelle/noextern.cocci --in-place Files under `compat/` are intentionally excluded as some are directly copied from external sources and we should avoid churning them as much as possible. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

trace2: create new combined trace facility

2019-02-22T23:27:59Z

Create a new unified tracing facility for git. The eventual intent is to replace the current trace_printf* and trace_performance* routines with a unified set of git_trace2* routines. In addition to the usual printf-style API, trace2 provides higer-level event verbs with fixed-fields allowing structured data to be written. This makes post-processing and analysis easier for external tools. Trace2 defines 3 output targets. These are set using the environment variables "GIT_TR2", "GIT_TR2_PERF", and "GIT_TR2_EVENT". These may be set to "1" or to an absolute pathname (just like the current GIT_TRACE). * GIT_TR2 is intended to be a replacement for GIT_TRACE and logs command summary data. * GIT_TR2_PERF is intended as a replacement for GIT_TRACE_PERFORMANCE. It extends the output with columns for the command process, thread, repo, absolute and relative elapsed times. It reports events for child process start/stop, thread start/stop, and per-thread function nesting. * GIT_TR2_EVENT is a new structured format. It writes event data as a series of JSON records. Calls to trace2 functions log to any of the 3 output targets enabled without the need to call different trace_printf* or trace_performance* routines. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

send-pack.c: move async's #ifdef NO_PTHREADS back to run-command.c

2018-11-05T04:42:11Z

On systems that do not support multithread, start_async() is implemented with fork(). This implementation details unfortunately leak out at least in send-pack.c [1]. To keep the code base clean of NO_PTHREADS, move the this #ifdef back to run-command.c. The new wrapper function async_with_fork() at least helps suggest that this special "close()" is related to async in fork mode. [1] 09c9957cf7 (send-pack: avoid deadlock when pack-object dies early - 2011-04-25) Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

run-command.h: include thread-utils.h instead of pthread.h

2018-11-05T04:42:11Z

run-command.c may use threads for its async support. But instead of including pthread.h directly, let's include thread-utils.h. run-command.c probably never needs the dummy bits in thread-utils.h when NO_PTHREADS is defined. But this makes sure we have consistent HAVE_THREADS behavior everywhere. From now on outside compat/, thread-utils.h is the only place that includes pthread.h Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

run-command: expose is_executable function

2017-04-26T01:45:29Z

Move the logic for 'is_executable()' from help.c to run_command.c and expose it so that callers from outside help.c can access the function. This is to enable run-command to be able to query if a file is executable in a future patch. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

execv_dashed_external: wait for child on signal death

2017-01-09T21:41:40Z

When you hit ^C to interrupt a git command going to a pager, this usually leaves the pager running. But when a dashed external is in use, the pager ends up in a funny state and quits (but only after eating one more character from the terminal!). This fixes it. Explaining the reason will require a little background. When git runs a pager, it's important for the git process to hang around and wait for the pager to finish, even though it has no more data to feed it. This is because git spawns the pager as a child, and thus the git process is the session leader on the terminal. After it dies, the pager will finish its current read from the terminal (eating the one character), and then get EIO trying to read again. When you hit ^C, that sends SIGINT to git and to the pager, and it's a similar situation. The pager ignores it, but the git process needs to hang around until the pager is done. We addressed that long ago in a3da882120 (pager: do wait_for_pager on signal death, 2009-01-22). But when you have a dashed external (or an alias pointing to a builtin, which will re-exec git for the builtin), there's an extra process in the mix. For instance, running: $ git -c alias.l=log l will end up with a process tree like: git (parent) \ git-log (child) \ less (pager) If you hit ^C, SIGINT goes to all of them. The pager ignores it, and the child git process will end up in wait_for_pager(). But the parent git process will die, and the usual EIO trouble happens. So we really want the parent git process to wait_for_pager(), but of course it doesn't know anything about the pager at all, since it was started by the child. However, we can have it wait on the git-log child, which in turn is waiting on the pager. And that's what this patch does. There are a few design decisions here worth explaining: 1. The new feature is attached to run-command's clean_on_exit feature. Partly this is convenience, since that feature already has a signal handler that deals with child cleanup. But it's also a meaningful connection. The main reason that dashed externals use clean_on_exit is to bind the two processes together. If somebody kills the parent with a signal, we propagate that to the child (in this instance with SIGINT, we do propagate but it doesn't matter because the original signal went to the whole process group). Likewise, we do not want the parent to go away until the child has done so. In a traditional Unix world, we'd probably accomplish this binding by just having the parent execve() the child directly. But since that doesn't work on Windows, everything goes through run_command's more spawn-like interface. 2. We do _not_ automatically waitpid() on any clean_on_exit children. For dashed externals this makes sense; we know that the parent is doing nothing but waiting for the child to exit anyway. But with other children, it's possible that the child, after getting the signal, could be waiting on the parent to do something (like closing a descriptor). If we were to wait on such a child, we'd end up in a deadlock. So this errs on the side of caution, and lets callers enable the feature explicitly. 3. When we send children the cleanup signal, we send all the signals first, before waiting on any children. This is to avoid the case where one child might be waiting on another one to exit, causing a deadlock. We inform all of them that it's time to die before reaping any. In practice, there is only ever one dashed external run from a given process, so this doesn't matter much now. But it future-proofs us if other callers start using the wait_after_clean mechanism. There's no automated test here, because it would end up racy and unportable. But it's easy to reproduce the situation by running the log command given above and hitting ^C. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

run-command: add clean_on_exit_handler

2016-10-17T18:36:50Z

Some processes might want to perform cleanup tasks before Git kills them due to the 'clean_on_exit' flag. Let's give them an interface for doing this. The feature is used in a subsequent patch. Please note, that the cleanup callback is not executed if Git dies of a signal. The reason is that only "async-signal-safe" functions would be allowed to be call in that case. Since we cannot control what functions the callback will use, we will not support the case. See 507d7804 for more details. Helped-by: Johannes Sixt Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano