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perl: redirect stderr to /dev/null instead of closing

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On my system, t9100.1 triggers the following warning:

  ==352== Syscall param write(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s)
  ==352==    at 0x57119C0: __write_nocancel (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
  ==352==    by 0x56AC1D2: _IO_file_write@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
  ==352==    by 0x56AC0B1: new_do_write (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
  ==352==    by 0x56AD3B4: _IO_do_write@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
  ==352==    by 0x56AD6FE: _IO_file_overflow@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
  ==352==    by 0x56AE3D8: _IO_default_xsputn (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
  ==352==    by 0x56ACAA2: _IO_file_xsputn@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
  ==352==    by 0x5682133: buffered_vfprintf (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
  ==352==    by 0x567CE9D: vfprintf (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
  ==352==    by 0x5687096: fprintf (in /lib64/libc-2.17.so)
  ==352==    by 0x4E7AC5: vreportf (usage.c:15)
  ==352==    by 0x4E7B14: die_builtin (usage.c:38)

The actual complaint appears to be a bug in the underlying
implementation.  What's interesting here is that it is apparently
_triggered_ by closing stderr, which results in (from strace)

  write(2, "fatal: Needed a single revision\n", 32) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
  write(2, "\0", 1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)

Closing stderr is a bad idea anyway: there is a very real chance that
we print fatal error messages to some other file that just happens to
be opened on the now-free FD 2.  So let's not do that.

As pointed out by Eric Wong (thanks), the initial close needs to go:
die() would again write nowhere if we close STDERR beforehand.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Thomas Rast 2013-04-04 22:41:41 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 3a3101c62e
commit bd4ca09d4c
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@ -1335,12 +1335,12 @@ sub _command_common_pipe {
if (not defined $pid) {
throw Error::Simple("open failed: $!");
} elsif ($pid == 0) {
if (defined $opts{STDERR}) {
close STDERR;
}
if ($opts{STDERR}) {
open (STDERR, '>&', $opts{STDERR})
or die "dup failed: $!";
} elsif (defined $opts{STDERR}) {
open (STDERR, '>', '/dev/null')
or die "opening /dev/null failed: $!";
}
_cmd_exec($self, $cmd, @args);
}