Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:00:56AM -0700, Erik E Brady wrote: > >> The credential subsystem can trigger SIGPIPE when writing to an >> external helper if that helper closes its stdin before reading the >> whole input. Normally this is rare, since helpers would need to read >> that input to make a decision about how to respond, but: >> >> 1. It's reasonable to configure a helper which only handles "get" >> while ignoring "store". Such a handler might not read stdin >> for "store", thereby rapidly closing stdin upon helper exit. >> >> 2. A broken or misbehaving helper might exit immediately. That's an >> error, but it's not reasonable for it to take down the parent Git >> process with SIGPIPE. >> >> Even with such a helper, seeing this problem should be rare. Getting >> SIGPIPE requires the helper racily exiting before we've written the >> fairly small credential output. >> >> Signed-off-by: Erik E Brady <br...@cisco.com> >> --- >> credential.c | 3 +++ >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > This version looks good to me. Thanks!
Yup, looks good. Thanks, both.
