From: Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pager: fix crash when pager program doesn't exist
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 13:46:35 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211122164635.6zrqjqow4xa7idnn@cyberdelia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <211122.86a6hwyx1b.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
On 11/22, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>I think an alternate direction of simply getting rid of "argv" is better
>in this case, and I've just submitted a topic to do that:
>https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover-0.5-00000000000-20211122T153605Z-avarab@gmail.com/
Well, this is my first interaction with git's source, so I can't say for
sure, but that solution seems more complete indeed.
>It still leave us with this oddity:
>
> $ ~/g/git/git -c pager.show=INVALID_PAGER show HEAD
> error: cannot run INVALID_PAGER: No such file or directory
> error: cannot run INVALID_PAGER: No such file or directory
>
>But that was the case before that topic (if we hadn't
>crashed/segfaulted), and with your proposed change here.
Yes, I did find it weird on my initial debugging, but didn't care at
first.
Now, looking again, it's because git (main command) have a higher
precedence on pager preference, so it tries to setup/run the pager
before running subcommands.
An issue I've hit now is, if we don't want to fallback to any other
setting, this works:
diff --git a/pager.c b/pager.c
index d93304527d62..b528bbd644b5 100644
--- a/pager.c
+++ b/pager.c
@@ -110,6 +110,14 @@ void setup_pager(void)
if (!pager)
return;
+ /*
+ * There's already a pager set up and running.
+ * Regardless if it was successful or not, we shouldn't try running
+ * it again.
+ */
+ if (pager_in_use())
+ return;
+
/*
* After we redirect standard output, we won't be able to use an ioctl
* to get the terminal size. Let's grab it now, and then set $COLUMNS
However, IMHO it would make sense to try pager.<subcommand> if a
previous attempt failed, e.g.:
$ git config pager.show my-valid-pager
$ GIT_PAGER=invalid-pager git -p show
So this will first try invalid-pager, fail, and not try again, with the
above patch. As a user, I would expect that my-valid-pager to be run in
case invalid-pager failed.
What do you think?
Cheers,
Enzo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-22 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-20 19:40 [PATCH v2] pager: fix crash when pager program doesn't exist Enzo Matsumiya
2021-11-21 18:37 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 2:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 4:35 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 14:52 ` Enzo Matsumiya
2021-11-22 17:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-23 16:40 ` Enzo Matsumiya
2021-11-24 1:55 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-24 15:51 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 0/5] run-command API: get rid of "argv" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 1/5] archive-tar: use our own cmd.buf in error message Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 21:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 2/5] upload-archive: use regular "struct child_process" pattern Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 17:02 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 20:53 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 21:10 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 21:36 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 3/5] run-command API users: use strvec_pushv(), not argv assignment Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 21:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 21:30 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 4/5] run-command API users: use strvec_pushl(), not argv construction Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 5/5] run-command API: remove "argv" member, always use "args" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 17:32 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 18:19 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 18:47 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 17:52 ` [PATCH 0/5] run-command API: get rid of "argv" Jeff King
2021-11-22 18:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 18:33 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 18:49 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 18:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] run-command API: get rid of "argv" and "env" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] worktree: remove redundant NULL-ing of "cp.argv Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 15:26 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-24 1:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-24 6:00 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-24 6:12 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-24 5:44 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] upload-archive: use regular "struct child_process" pattern Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] run-command API users: use strvec_pushv(), not argv assignment Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] run-command tests: " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-24 1:33 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] run-command API users: use strvec_pushl(), not argv construction Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] run-command API users: use strvec_push(), " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] run-command API: remove "argv" member, always use "args" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] difftool: use "env_array" to simplify memory management Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] run-command API: remove "env" member, always use "env_array" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 0/9] run-command API: get rid of "argv" and "env" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] worktree: stop being overly intimate with run_command() internals Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-26 9:48 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] upload-archive: use regular "struct child_process" pattern Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] run-command API users: use strvec_pushv(), not argv assignment Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] run-command tests: " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] run-command API users: use strvec_pushl(), not argv construction Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] run-command API users: use strvec_push(), " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] run-command API: remove "argv" member, always use "args" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] difftool: use "env_array" to simplify memory management Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] run-command API: remove "env" member, always use "env_array" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH v2] pager: fix crash when pager program doesn't exist Enzo Matsumiya
2021-11-22 16:22 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:46 ` Enzo Matsumiya [this message]
2021-11-22 17:10 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 17:41 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 18:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 18:26 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 17:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 18:37 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 17:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 18:35 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:30 ` Jeff King
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