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Re: 1.7.8: write fails with EAGAIN


Hi,

Hang on, you are saying that a *blocking* write(2) to a pipe returns
with EAGAIN?  Are you sure?  It would be quite a surprise if git would
actually do that.  EAGAIN is only an expected error for non-blocking
I/O, so applications which use blocking I/O usually only test for EINTR.

since in the interesting case I'm writing to stdout (fd=1) I don't know whether that was initially opened with O_NONBLOCK - but I wouldn't think so.


I was able to reproduce this as follows:

./writetest infile | cat > outfile

where infile is a "large" file.
The output is:

$ ./writetest infile | cat > test.out
writing 78954543 bytes...
result is -1, errno is 11
writing 78954543 bytes...
result is -1, errno is 11
...

This does not happen for "small" files:

$ ./writetest infile2 | cat > test.out
writing 10978848 bytes...
result is 10978848, errno is 0

Also, I tried this with the same cygwin version on Win7/64-bit and this did not happen even for a 1GB file.


-Robert


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