Re: [PATCH] Don't try to reclose in command_close_bidi_pipe

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Yuval Kogman [off-list ref] wrote:

Here is an example:
http://github.com/yanick/git-cpan-patch/blob/ed67d3f86f371764935fd0da3e7f08536c95b606/git-cpan-import#L190

Since git-commit-tree requires the message to be written before it can
write the sha1 of the new commit object, the handle has to be closed
already, which makes command_close_bidi_pipe die with an error.
The workaround in the linked code reopens a fake handle so that
close() will not error.
For what it's worth, I've been poking at t/t9700/test.pl but since
it's pretty sparse I figured I should contribute this fix
independently.

Your usage seems to a very special case. You're closing the handle,
and then invoking the method "command_close_bidi_pipe", whose job is
to close the pipe handles passed to it (among other things). So, it
doesn't seem very good to make "command_close_bidi_pipe" to take into
account that you closed your handle independently.

Maybe you could write a pair of new functions for the commit-tree
command in the Git package, something like the
"_open_hash_and_insert_object_if_needed" and "hash_and_insert_object"
pair.

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan