RE: poll() emulation in git

[Joachim Schmitz]

> From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Paolo Bonzini
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 4:32 PM
> To: Joachim Schmitz
> Cc: address@hidden; 'Junio C Hamano'; 'Erik Faye-Lund'; address@hidden; 
> address@hidden
> Subject: Re: poll() emulation in git
> 
> Il 06/09/2012 16:02, Joachim Schmitz ha scritto:
> >
> > But is there something that could be done to make git work even without 
> > poll()?
> > It is used in 5 places:
> >
> > $ grep -n poll\( *.c */*.c
> > credential-cache--daemon.c:175: if (poll(&pfd, 1, 1000 * wakeup) < 0) {
> > daemon.c:1018:          if (poll(pfd, socklist->nr, -1) < 0) {
> > help.c:361:                     poll(NULL, 0, autocorrect * 100);
> > upload-pack.c:232:              if (poll(pfd, pollsize, -1) < 0) {
> > builtin/upload-archive.c:125:           if (poll(pfd, 2, -1) < 0) {
> >
> > Don't quite understand why in help.c it has that NULL, which should always 
> > result in an EFAULT and other than that basically is
a
> > NOP (at least in the poll() emulation)? Seems a usleep(autocorrect * 100) 
> > is meant to happen here instead?
> > So I think here a poll() isn't needed at all. But also the 'broken' one 
> > shouldn't harm too much.
> 
> Yes, it's an usleep(autocorrect * 100000) basically (poll takes
> milliseconds, not micro).

OK, it is _supposed_ to do this usleep(), but is does not, as poll() returns 
early with EFAULT in this case:
  /* EFAULT is not necessary to implement, but let's do it in the
     simplest case. */
  if (!pfd)
    {
      errno = EFAULT;
      return -1;
    }

poll() is doing this before calling select(), so won't sleep.
So there's a bug in {gnulib|git}'s poll(), right?

> > ...
> > # else
> >       char data[64];
> >       r = recv (fd, data, sizeof (data), MSG_PEEK);
> >       socket_errno = (r < 0) ? errno : 0;
> > # endif
> >       if (r == 0)
> >         happened |= POLLHUP;
> >
> >       /* If the event happened on an unconnected server socket,
> >          that's fine. */
> >       else if (r > 0 || ( /* (r == -1) && */ socket_errno == ENOTCONN))
> >         happened |= (POLLIN | POLLRDNORM) & sought;
> >
> >       /* Distinguish hung-up sockets from other errors.  */
> >       else if (socket_errno == ESHUTDOWN || socket_errno == ECONNRESET
> >                || socket_errno == ECONNABORTED || socket_errno == ENETRESET)
> >         happened |= POLLHUP;
> >
> > #ifdef __TANDEM /* as we can't recv(...,MSG_PEEK) on a non-socket */
> >       else if (socket_errno == ENOTSOCK)
> >         happened |= (POLLIN | POLLRDNORM) & sought;
> > #endif
> >       else
> >         happened |= POLLERR;
> >     }
> > ...
> >
> > We won't detect POLLHUP that way I think. However it seems to work, we've 
> > been able to clone, push, pull, branch that way with
> > NonStop being the (ssh-)server, something that didn't work at all without 
> > that hack (and yes, I believe it is just that).
> > Someone in for a cleaner way of managing this?
> 
> I suppose it works to always handle ENOTSOCK that way, even on
> non-__TANDEM systems.

So you think this is a clean way of dealing with it?

Bye, Jojo