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! -Peff
