Note that I had one in Annex.Action.startup too, but it resulted in a weird
message printed by ssh, "channel 2: bad ext data". I don't know why, but
it only happened when transferinfo was run, so I wonder
if 983a95f021 introduced a fragility somehow.
This is mostly to be able to see how long a command took to run. Also exit
code may be useful.
Unofrtunately, I can't put the command name in there, because it's not
available at this point, and it would be a much larger change to wrap the
ProcessHandle data type to add that. However, it's generally pretty obvious
which process exited from context.
Since _encodeFilePath generates a String that doesn't use the filesystem
encoding, when this exception is caught, we know we already have such a
String, and can just return it as-is.
This was caused by 23e9d3bb77
an Arbitrary String is not necessarily encoded using the filesystem
encoding, and in a non-utf8 locale, encodeBS throws an exception on such a
string. All I could think to do is limit test data to ascii.
This shouldn't be a problem in practice, because the all Strings in
git-annex that are not generated by Arbitrary should be loaded in a way
that does apply the filesystem encoding.
Oh boy, not again. So, another place that the filesystem encoding needs to
be applied. Yay.
In passing, I changed decodeBS so if a NUL is embedded in the input, the
resulting FilePath doesn't get truncated at that NUL. This was needed to
make prop_b64_roundtrips pass, and on reviewing the callers of decodeBS, I
didn't see any where this wouldn't make sense. When a FilePath is used to
operate on the filesystem, it'll get truncated at a NUL anyway, whereas if
a String is being used for something else, it might conceivably have a NUL
in it, and we wouldn't want it to get truncated when going through
decodeBS.
(NB: There may be a speed impact from this change.)
