Jeff King
8b44deebaf
This reverts commit dd3693eb08.
The goal of that commit was to avoid zombie child processes hanging
around when the parent git process is killed. But it doesn't quite work
when the child command is run by the shell:
1. If there is a shell, then we kill and wait for the shell, not the
process spawned by the shell. And so the child process, even if it
eventually exits, will hang around as a zombie forever. And this is
true of most (all?) shells: bash, dash, etc.
So we are not really accomplishing our goal in the first place.
2. Not all shells will exit immediately upon receiving a signal. In
particular, mksh will wait for its children to exit (but not
actually propagate the signal to them!) leaving us with a potential
deadlock: git is wait()ing on mksh, which is wait()ing on a child
process, but that child process is waiting on git to produce more
input (or EOF) over a pipe.
You can see several examples of this deadlock in the test suite,
for example by running:
make SHELL_PATH=/bin/mksh
cd t
./t5702-protocol-v2.sh
Because this is a regression for mksh users, and because we did not
achieve our goal even with other shells, let's revert the commit for
now. If there is a more clever way of doing the same thing, we can
consider applying it separately on top (or do nothing and just accept
the zombies and rely on PID 1 to reap them).
Reported-by: Jan Palus <jpalus@fastmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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