Made all uses of openFd and dup set the close-on-exec flag, with a few
exceptions when starting a git-annex daemon.
Made openFdWithMode be used everywhere, rather than openFd.
Adding a new parameter to it ensures I checked everything.
And will help to make sure this gets considered in the future when
opening fds.
In lockPidFile, the only thing that keeps the pid file locked, once
daemonize re-runs the command in a new session, is that the fd is
inherited.
In Utility.LogFile.redir, the new fd it dups to does not have the
close-on-exec flag set, because this is used to set up the stdout and
stderr fds, which need to be inherited by child processes.
Same in Assistant.startDaemon where the browser gets started with the
original stdout and stderr.
This does nothing about uses of openFile and similar!
Sponsored-By: mycroft
ghc 8.8.4 seems to have changed something that broke code that has been
successfully using forkProcess since 2012. Likely a change to GC internals.
Since forkProcess has never had clear documentation about how to
use it safely, avoid using it at all. Instead, when git-annex needs to
daemonize itself, re-run the git-annex command, in a new process group
and session.
This commit was sponsored by Luke Shumaker on Patreon.
Eliminated some dead code. In other cases, exported a currently unused
function, since it was a logical part of the API.
Of course this improves the API documentation. It may also sometimes
let ghc optimize code better, since it can know a function is internal
to a module.
364 modules still to go, according to
git grep -E 'module [A-Za-z.]+ where'
Get ugly reversion out of CHANGELOG.
Also, relocated the windows stack.yaml to top, and updated windows build
instructions.
This commit was sponsored by Henrik Riomar on Patreon.
ghc 8 added backtraces on uncaught errors. This is great, but git-annex was
using error in many places for a error message targeted at the user, in
some known problem case. A backtrace only confuses such a message, so omit it.
Notably, commands like git annex drop that failed due to eg, numcopies,
used to use error, so had a backtrace.
This commit was sponsored by Ethan Aubin.
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.
This avoids ssh prompting for passwords on stdin, ever.
It may also change other behavior of other programs, as there is no
controlling terminal now. However, setsid was already done when running the
assistant in daemon mode, so any behavior changes should not be really new.
The ctrl-c hack used before didn't actually seem to work.
No haskell libraries expose TerminateProcess. I tried just calling it via
FFI, but got segfaults, probably to do with the wacky process handle not
being managed correctly. Moving it all into one C function worked.
This was hell. The EvilLinker hack was just final icing on the cake.
We all know what the cake was made of.
Turns out that forkProcess masks async exceptions. Unmask them so that the
daemon code can use them for thread IPC.
There is some risk this introduces breakage in git-annex, but it would be
breakage that would already occur when the assistant was run with
--foreground.
That's needed in files used to build the configure program.
For the other files, I'm keeping my __WINDOWS__ define, as I find that much easier to type.
I may search and replace it to use the mingw32_HOST_OS thing later.
