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Re: svnserve - don't ignore errors

From: Stefan Fuhrmann <stefan.fuhrmann_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 19:15:13 +0100

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>wrote:

> Bert mentioned to me that svnserve sometimes exits successfully after a
> genuine fatal error.
>
> In r1544253 I added error checking to some socket initiliazation cases. I
> haven't reproduced such errors, I just followed the obvious coding pattern
> to add the missing checks.
>
> I would appreciate a review of that to ensure it wasn't ignoring errors on
> purpose in either of those places.
>

As far as I can tell, this should be fine. Svnserve has been somewhat
neglected in the past, so things like error handling and logging were not
particularly consistent. 1.9 is an improvement in this department.

I think we should simply document these changes in the release notes
(just added a basic template for 1.9).

> In r1544256 I added error checking to the main exit code path of both
> inetd and tunnel modes. This one is easily demonstrated and pretty obvious
> I think:
>
> [[[
> # previously:
> $ echo foo | svnserve -t
> ( success ( 2 2 ( ) ( edit-pipeline svndiff1 absent-entries
> commit-revprops depth log-revprops atomic-revprops partial-replay
> inherited-props ephemeral-txnprops file-revs-reverse ) ) )
> julianfoad_at_julian-think ~/src/subversion-c
> $ echo $?
> 0
>
> $ echo foo | svnserve -t
> # now:
> ( success ( 2 2 ( ) ( edit-pipeline svndiff1 absent-entries
> commit-revprops depth log-revprops atomic-revprops partial-replay
> inherited-props ephemeral-txnprops file-revs-reverse ) ) )
> /.../subversion/svnserve/serve.c:3622,
> /.../subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/marshal.c:1372:
> (apr_err=SVN_ERR_RA_SVN_MALFORMED_DATA)
> svnserve: E210004: Malformed network data
> $ echo $?
> 1
> ]]]
>
> Review appreciated, again, though, as I don't know what strange
> configurations people might possibly have where they're perhaps relying on
> getting no error report. Hopefully not, but sometimes people do strange
> things.
>

Same here. I love how the new sub_main() function makes all sorts
of cleanup and error reporting much simpler.

-- Stefan^2.
Received on 2013-11-23 19:15:44 CET

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