Revert ServerAliveInterval change in 6.20161111, which caused problems
with too many old versions of ssh and unusual ssh configurations.
It should have not been needed anyway since ssh is supposted to
have TCPKeepAlive enabled by default.
When used with an older version of ssh, any ServerAliveInterval in
~/.ssh/config will be overridden by .git/annex/ssh.config.
This commit was sponsored by Josh Taylor on Patreon.
So that stalled transfers will be noticed within about 3 minutes,
even if TCPKeepAlive is disabled or doesn't work.
Rather than setting with -o, use -F with another config file,
so that any settings in ~/.ssh/config or /etc/ssh/ssh_config overrides this.
I think that the problem was caused by windows not having a concept of an
env var that is set, but to the empty string. So, GIT_ANNEX_SSHOPTION
got set to "" and was not seen as set at all.
Easy fix, which also makes git-annex sync a little faster is to not set
GIT_SSH, when GIT_ANNEX_SSHOPTION has no options. Might as well let git use
ssh per usual in this case, no need to run git-annex as the proxy ssh
command..
This removes a bit of complexity, and should make things faster
(avoids tokenizing Params string), and probably involve less garbage
collection.
In a few places, it was useful to use Params to avoid needing a list,
but that is easily avoided.
Problems noticed while doing this conversion:
* Some uses of Params "oneword" which was entirely unnecessary
overhead.
* A few places that built up a list of parameters with ++
and then used Params to split it!
Test suite passes.
The one exception is in Utility.Daemon. As long as a process only
daemonizes once, which seems reasonable, and as long as it avoids calling
checkDaemon once it's already running as a daemon, the fcntl locking
gotchas won't be a problem there.
Annex.LockFile has it's own separate lock pool layer, which has been
renamed to LockCache. This is a persistent cache of locks that persist
until closed.
This is not quite done; lockContent stil needs to be converted.
Most of the time, there will be no discreprancy between programPath and
readProgramFile.
But, the programFile might have been written by an old version of git-annex
that is still installed, while a newer one is currently running. In this
case, we want to run the same one that's currently running.
This is especially important for things like the GIT_SSH=git-annex used for
ssh connection caching.
The only code that still uses readProgramFile directly is the upgrade code,
which needs to know where the standalone git-annex was installed, in order to
upgrade it.
* sync: Use the ssh-options git config when doing git pull and push.
* remotedaemon: Use the ssh-options git config.
Note that the rename env var means that if a new git-annex calls an old one
for git-annex ssh, or a new calls an old, nothing much will go wrong;
just ssh caching won't happen.
Reverts 965e106f24
Unfortunately, this caused breakage on Windows, and possibly elsewhere,
because parentDir and takeDirectory do not behave the same when there is a
trailing directory separator.
parentDir is less safe than takeDirectory, especially when working
with relative FilePaths. It's really only useful in loops that
want to terminate at /
This commit was sponsored by Audric SCHILTKNECHT.
This fixes all instances of " \t" in the code base. Most common case
seems to be after a "where" line; probably vim copied the two space layout
of that line.
Done as a background task while listening to episode 2 of the Type Theory
podcast.
Also fixes a test suite failures introduced in recent commits, where
inAnnexSafe failed in indirect mode, since it tried to open the lock file
ReadWrite. This is why the new checkLocked opens it ReadOnly.
This commit was sponsored by Chad Horohoe.
Added a convenience Utility.LockFile that is not a windows/posix
portability shim, but still manages to cut down on the boilerplate around
locking.
This commit was sponsored by Johan Herland.
(With the exception of daemon pid locking.)
This fixes at part of #758630. I reproduced the assistant locking eg, a
removable drive's annex journal lock file and forking a long-running
git-cat-file process that inherited that lock.
This did not affect Windows.
Considered doing a portable Utility.LockFile layer, but git-annex uses
posix locks in several special ways that have no direct Windows equivilant,
and it seems like it would mostly be a complication.
This commit was sponsored by Protonet.
To use, set GIT_ANNEX_SSHASKPASS to point to a fifo or regular file
(FIFO is better, avoids touching disk or multiple readers) that contains
the password. Then set SSH_ASKPASS=git-annex, and when ssh runs it, it will
tell ssh the password.
This is not yet used..
For sync, saves 1 ssh connection per remote. For remotedaemon, the same
ssh connection that is already open to run git-annex-shell notifychanges
is reused to pull from the remote.
Only potential problem is that this also enables connection caching
when the assistant syncs with a ssh remote. Including the sync it does
when a network connection has just come up. In that case, cached ssh
connections are likely to be stale, and so using them would hang.
Until I'm sure such problems have been dealt with, this commit needs to
stay on the remotecontrol branch, and not be merged to master.
This commit was sponsored by Alexandre Dupas.
Old ssh did not check the hostname passed to -O stop, so I had used "any".
But now ssh does check it! I think this happened as part of the client-side
hostname canonicalization changes in 6.5p1, but have not verified that
introduced the problem.
The symptom was that it would try to dns lookup "any", which often caused a
bit of a delay at shutdown. And the old ssh connection kept running, so
it would do it over and over again.
Fixed by using localhost, which hopefully reliably resolves to some address
that ssh will accept.. Also nukeFile the socket after ssh has been asked to
shutdown, just in case.
This guarantees that stopping an existing socket never fails.
This might be the route out of the mess of needing to worry about socket
lengths in general. However, it would need quite a lot of refactoring
to make every place in git-annex that runs ssh run it with a cwd that was
determined by the location of its connection caching socket. If this
wasn't already such a mess, I'd consider even the thought of that API a bad
idea..
The control socket path passed to ssh needs to be 17 characters shorter
than the maximum unix domain socket length, because ssh appends stuff to it
to make a temporary filename. Closes: #725512
Also, take the shorter of the relative and the absolute paths to the
socket. Typically the relative path will be a lot shorter (unless
deep inside a subdirectory of the repository), and so using it will
avoid flirting with the maximum safe socket lenghts in more situations,
and so lead to less breakage if all my attempts at fixing this are
still buggy.
This is ok to do now that the socket filename never needs to be mapped back
to a hostname.
Short hostnames will still appear in the clear, which is less obfuscated.
So this cannot possibly make ssh connection caching fail for a hostname it
used to work for.
Turns out that with -O stop -S socketfile, ssh does not need the real
hostname, or port to be specificed. This is because it simply talks to the
ssh behind the socket and tells it to stop. So, can eliminate the
conversion back from a socketfile to host and port. Which will allow using
shorter filenames for sockets in the future.
Yeah, that didn't actually work. Got error messages like it couldn't read
from the control socket, so probably ssh doesn't really support that on
Windows, at least the cygwin ssh build I'm using.
