From afe19ff7b55129d988e421ae1e0df4ec9659787a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff King Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 12:42:43 +0100 Subject: run-command: optionally kill children on exit When we spawn a helper process, it should generally be done and finish_command called before we exit. However, if we exit abnormally due to an early return or a signal, the helper may continue to run in our absence. In the best case, this may simply be wasted CPU cycles or a few stray messages on a terminal. But it could also mean a process that the user thought was aborted continues to run to completion (e.g., a push's pack-objects helper will complete the push, even though you killed the push process). This patch provides infrastructure for run-command to keep track of PIDs to be killed, and clean them on signal reception or input, just as we do with tempfiles. PIDs can be added in two ways: 1. If NO_PTHREADS is defined, async helper processes are automatically marked. By definition this code must be ready to die when the parent dies, since it may be implemented as a thread of the parent process. 2. If the run-command caller specifies the "clean_on_exit" option. This is not the default, as there are cases where it is OK for the child to outlive us (e.g., when spawning a pager). PIDs are cleared from the kill-list automatically during wait_or_whine, which is called from finish_command and finish_async. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- run-command.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'run-command.h') diff --git a/run-command.h b/run-command.h index 56491b9f23..2a6946668b 100644 --- a/run-command.h +++ b/run-command.h @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ struct child_process { unsigned silent_exec_failure:1; unsigned stdout_to_stderr:1; unsigned use_shell:1; + unsigned clean_on_exit:1; void (*preexec_cb)(void); }; -- cgit v1.3-6-g1900