Pete Wyckoff 7fb8e163bd git-remote-testgit: fix race when spawning fast-import ...

Test "pushing to local repo" in t5800-remote-helpers can hang
due to a race condition in git-remote-testgit.  Fix it by
setting stdin to unbuffered.

On the writer side, "git push" invokes push_refs_with_export(),
which sends to stdout the command "export\n" and immediately
starts up "git fast-export".  The latter writes its output stream
to the same stdout.

On the reader side, remote helper "git-remote-testgit" reads from
stdin to get its next command.  It uses getc() to read characters
from libc up until \n.  Libc has buffered a potentially much
larger chunk of stdin.  When it sees the "export\n" command, it
forks "git fast-import" to read the stream.

If fast-export finishes before git fast-import starts, the
fast-export output can end up in libc's buffer in
git-remote-testgit, rather than in git fast-import.  The latter
hangs indefinitely on a now-empty stdin.

Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2012-04-24 14:54:24 -07:00

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