On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 09:37:35AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > When a remote helper exposes the "import" capability, stdout of the > helper is sent to stdin of a new fast-import process. This is done by > setting the corresponding child_process's in field to the value of the > out field of the helper child_process. > > The child_process API is defined to close the file descriptors it's > given when calling start_command. This means when start_command is > called for the fast-import process, its input fd (the output fd of the > helper), is closed. > > But when the transport helper is later destroyed, in disconnect_helper, > its input and output are closed, which means close() is called with > an invalid fd (since it was already closed as per above). Or worse, with > a valid fd owned by something else (since fd numbers can be reused).
I think this strategy is OK, as explained in my other email. -Peff
