RE: [PATCH] remote-curl: don't hang when a server dies before any output

[David Turner <David.Turner@twosigma.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff King [mailto:peff@peff.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 12:09 PM
> To: David Turner
> Cc: Junio C Hamano; git@vger.kernel.org; spearce@spearce.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] remote-curl: don't hang when a server dies before any
> output
> 
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 05:04:59PM +0000, David Turner wrote:
> 
> > > So I don't feel like we have a good patch for the general case yet,
> > > and I'm probably not going to get around to implementing it anytime
> > > soon.
> >
> > I'm confused -- it sounds like your patch actually does work (that is,
> > that Junio's failure was not caused by your patch but by the absence
> > of our patches). And your patch handles more cases than mine.  So we
> > should probably use it instead of mine.
> 
> No, mine passes the vanilla test suite, but fails with GIT_TEST_LONG.
> If the want/have negotiation takes multiple rounds, the intermediate
> rounds don't end on a flush packet, and my patch causes remote-curl to
> complain that the response was truncated.
> 
> I think you could fix it by teaching remote-curl that the final packet
> must be a flush _or_ contain an ACK/NAK, but I didn't try it. That's
> getting a bit invasive and brittle.

OK, I'll re-roll mine with a better message.