Re: Mild bug?

Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:

> When you terminate the more process you close the pipe between more
> and svn. The diff process inherits its stdout from the svn process,
> so when the pipe is closed the diff output is closed. When the diff
> process tries to write to the closed stream it receives SIGPIPE. The
> diff process does not attempt to handle SIGPIPE so the default
> behaviour, which is to abort the process, occurs. The svn function
> svn_io_run_cmd detects that the diff process has aborted and returns
> SVN_ERR_EXTERNAL_PROGRAM. This will cause the above error message to
> be output and the svn process to exit with EXIT_FAILURE.

Wow, thank you for that crystal clear explanation!

Should svn try to trap the specific error associated with an aborted
diff process? Or is there some other more elegant solution?

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Received on Wed Jul 3 22:00:44 2002