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Michael Haggerty
ec38b4e482 get_locked_file_path(): new function
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>
2014-10-01 13:53:54 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
316683bd37 lockfile.c: rename static functions
* 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>
2014-10-01 13:53:53 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
47ba4662bf lockfile: rename LOCK_NODEREF to LOCK_NO_DEREF
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>
2014-10-01 13:53:28 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
751bacedaa commit_lock_file_to(): refactor a helper out of commit_lock_file()
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>
2014-10-01 13:52:06 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
0c0d6e8601 trim_last_path_component(): replace last_path_elm()
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>
2014-10-01 13:51:30 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
6cad805332 resolve_symlink(): take a strbuf parameter
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>
2014-10-01 13:51:29 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
5025d8450a resolve_symlink(): use a strbuf for internal scratch space
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>
2014-10-01 13:51:29 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
cf6950d3bf lockfile: change lock_file::filename into a strbuf
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>
2014-10-01 13:50:01 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
3e88e8fc08 commit_lock_file(): use a strbuf to manage temporary space
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>
2014-10-01 13:49:01 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
2091c5062c struct lock_file: declare some fields volatile
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>
2014-10-01 13:49:00 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
707103fdfd lockfile: avoid transitory invalid states
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>
2014-10-01 13:48:59 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
1b1648f46b commit_lock_file(): rollback lock file on failure to rename
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>
2014-10-01 13:45:14 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
8e86c155d2 close_lock_file(): if close fails, roll back
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>
2014-10-01 13:45:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
8a1c7533e2 commit_lock_file(): die() if called for unlocked lockfile object
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>
2014-10-01 13:45:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
4f4713df94 commit_lock_file(): inline temporary variable
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01 13:45:13 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
a1754bcce9 remove_lock_file(): call rollback_lock_file()
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>
2014-10-01 13:45:12 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
e31e949b9f lock_file(): exit early if lockfile cannot be opened
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>
2014-10-01 13:45:12 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
7108ad232f cache.h: define constants LOCK_SUFFIX and LOCK_SUFFIX_LEN
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>
2014-10-01 13:45:11 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
0a06f14837 lockfile.c: document the various states of lock_file objects
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>
2014-10-01 13:45:11 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
04e57d4d32 lock_file(): always initialize and register lock_file object
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>
2014-10-01 13:43:50 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
ebb8e380e9 hold_lock_file_for_append(): release lock on errors
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>
2014-10-01 13:38:42 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
41dd4ffaf9 lockfile: unlock file if lockfile permissions cannot be adjusted
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>
2014-10-01 13:38:41 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
26f5d3b65f rollback_lock_file(): set fd to -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>
2014-10-01 13:38:41 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
9085f8e279 rollback_lock_file(): exit early if lock is not active
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>
2014-10-01 13:38:40 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
5527d5349b rollback_lock_file(): do not clear filename redundantly
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>
2014-10-01 13:38:39 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
419f0c0f68 close_lock_file(): exit (successfully) if file is already closed
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>
2014-10-01 13:38:39 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
e197c21807 unable_to_lock_die(): rename function from unable_to_lock_index_die()
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>
2014-10-01 13:38:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c518279c0e Merge branch 'jc/reopen-lock-file'
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
2014-09-02 13:20:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
19a249ba83 Merge branch 'rs/ref-transaction-0'
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
2014-07-21 11:18:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
93dcaea226 lockfile: allow reopening a closed but still locked file
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>
2014-07-14 13:05:37 -07:00
Ronnie Sahlberg
447ff1bf0a lockfile.c: make lock_file return a meaningful errno on failurei
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>
2014-07-14 11:54:41 -07:00
Ronnie Sahlberg
6af926e8bc lockfile.c: add a new public function unable_to_lock_message
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>
2014-07-14 11:54:40 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
626f35c893 read-cache: relocate and unexport commit_locked_index()
This function is now only used by write_locked_index(). Move it to
read-cache.c (because read-cache.c will need to be aware of
alternate_index_output later) and unexport it.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-13 11:49:38 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
2fbd4f92fa lockfile: fix buffer overflow in path handling
The path of the file to be locked is held in lock_file::filename,
which is a fixed-length buffer of length PATH_MAX.  This buffer is
also (temporarily) used to hold the path of the lock file, which is
the path of the file being locked plus ".lock".  Because of this, the
path of the file being locked must be less than (PATH_MAX - 5)
characters long (5 chars are needed for ".lock" and one character for
the NUL terminator).

On entry into lock_file(), the path length was only verified to be
less than PATH_MAX characters, not less than (PATH_MAX - 5)
characters.

When and if resolve_symlink() is called, then that function is
correctly told to treat the buffer as (PATH_MAX - 5) characters long.
This part is correct.  However:

* If LOCK_NODEREF was specified, then resolve_symlink() is never
  called.

* If resolve_symlink() is called but the path is not a symlink, then
  the length check is never applied.

So it is possible for a path with length (PATH_MAX - 5 <= len <
PATH_MAX) to make it through the checks.  When ".lock" is strcat()ted
to such a path, the lock_file::filename buffer is overflowed.

Fix the problem by adding a check when entering lock_file() that the
original path is less than (PATH_MAX - 5) characters.

[jc: with independent development by Peff]

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-07 10:29:28 -07:00
Carlos Martín Nieto
e2a57aac8a Name make_*_path functions more accurately
Rename the make_*_path functions so it's clearer what they do, in
particlar make clear what the differnce between make_absolute_path and
make_nonrelative_path is by renaming them real_path and absolute_path
respectively. make_relative_path has an understandable name and is
renamed to relative_path to maintain the name convention.

The function calls have been replaced 1-to-1 in their usage.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-17 16:08:30 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
a8c37a0e01 lockfile: show absolute filename in unable_to_lock_message
When calling a git command from a subdirectory and a file locking fails,
the user will get a path relative to the root of the worktree, which is
invalid from the place where the command is ran. Make it easy for the
user to know which file it is.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-12 15:48:24 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
1b018fd9be git branch -D: give a better error message when lockfile creation fails
Previously the old error message just told the user that it was not
possible to delete the ref from the packed-refs file. Give instructions
on how to resolve the problem.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2009-09-29 08:14:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
36587681b4 Merge branch 'ar/unlink-err'
* ar/unlink-err:
  print unlink(2) errno in copy_or_link_directory
  replace direct calls to unlink(2) with unlink_or_warn
  Introduce an unlink(2) wrapper which gives warning if unlink failed
2009-05-18 09:01:06 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
4b25d091ba Fix a bunch of pointer declarations (codestyle)
Essentially; s/type* /type */ as per the coding guidelines.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-01 15:17:31 -07:00
Alex Riesen
691f1a28bf replace direct calls to unlink(2) with unlink_or_warn
This helps to notice when something's going wrong, especially on
systems which lock open files.

I used the following criteria when selecting the code for replacement:
- it was already printing a warning for the unlink failures
- it is in a function which already printing something or is
  called from such a function
- it is in a static function, returning void and the function is only
  called from a builtin main function (cmd_)
- it is in a function which handles emergency exit (signal handlers)
- it is in a function which is obvously cleaning up the lockfiles

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-29 18:37:41 -07:00
John Tapsell
bdfd739dac Make the 'lock file' exists error more informative
It looks like someone did 90% of the work, then forgot to actually use
the function in one place.

Also the helper function did not use the correct variable.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-04 20:35:19 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8c5b85ce87 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  More friendly message when locking the index fails.
  Document git blame --reverse.
  Documentation: Note file formats send-email accepts
2009-02-19 23:44:07 -08:00
Matthieu Moy
e43a6fd3e9 More friendly message when locking the index fails.
Just saying that index.lock exists doesn't tell the user _what_ to do
to fix the problem. We should give an indication that it's normally
safe to delete index.lock after making sure git isn't running here.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-19 23:22:57 -08:00
Jeff King
57b235a4bc refactor signal handling for cleanup functions
The current code is very inconsistent about which signals
are caught for doing cleanup of temporary files and lock
files. Some callsites checked only SIGINT, while others
checked a variety of death-dealing signals.

This patch factors out those signals to a single function,
and then calls it everywhere. For some sites, that means
this is a simple clean up. For others, it is an improvement
in that they will now properly clean themselves up after a
larger variety of signals.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-21 22:46:53 -08:00
Jeff King
4a16d07272 chain kill signals for cleanup functions
If a piece of code wanted to do some cleanup before exiting
(e.g., cleaning up a lockfile or a tempfile), our usual
strategy was to install a signal handler that did something
like this:

  do_cleanup(); /* actual work */
  signal(signo, SIG_DFL); /* restore previous behavior */
  raise(signo); /* deliver signal, killing ourselves */

For a single handler, this works fine. However, if we want
to clean up two _different_ things, we run into a problem.
The most recently installed handler will run, but when it
removes itself as a handler, it doesn't put back the first
handler.

This patch introduces sigchain, a tiny library for handling
a stack of signal handlers. You sigchain_push each handler,
and use sigchain_pop to restore whoever was before you in
the stack.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-21 22:46:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0693f9ddad Make sure lockfiles are unlocked when dying on SIGPIPE
We cleaned up lockfiles upon receiving the usual suspects HUP, TERM, QUIT
but a wicked user could kill us of asphyxiation by piping our output to a
pipe that does not read.  Protect ourselves by catching SIGPIPE and clean
up the lockfiles as well in such a case.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-21 01:56:20 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
acd3b9eca8 Enhance hold_lock_file_for_{update,append}() API
This changes the "die_on_error" boolean parameter to a mere "flags", and
changes the existing callers of hold_lock_file_for_update/append()
functions to pass LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-19 12:35:37 -07:00
Paolo Bonzini
ad5fa3cc0e rollback lock files on more signals than just SIGINT
Other signals are also common, for example SIGTERM and SIGHUP.
This patch modifies the lock file mechanism to catch more signals.
It also modifies http-push.c which was missing SIGTERM.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-31 14:33:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b84c343c88 Merge branch 'db/clone-in-c'
* db/clone-in-c:
  Add test for cloning with "--reference" repo being a subset of source repo
  Add a test for another combination of --reference
  Test that --reference actually suppresses fetching referenced objects
  clone: fall back to copying if hardlinking fails
  builtin-clone.c: Need to closedir() in copy_or_link_directory()
  builtin-clone: fix initial checkout
  Build in clone
  Provide API access to init_db()
  Add a function to set a non-default work tree
  Allow for having for_each_ref() list extra refs
  Have a constant extern refspec for "--tags"
  Add a library function to add an alternate to the alternates file
  Add a lockfile function to append to a file
  Mark the list of refs to fetch as const

Conflicts:

	cache.h
	t/t5700-clone-reference.sh
2008-05-25 13:41:37 -07:00
Clemens Buchacher
a129293938 Reset the signal being handled
This did not cause any problems, because remove_lock_file_on_signal is
only registered for SIGINT.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-25 13:06:55 -07:00