Re: git archive, cygwin, and --git-dir vs --remote

On Thu, 21 May 2009, René Scharfe wrote:

That's strange.  It seems that poll() reports that there is data to read
from the child (which is running git-upload-archive), even though it
already called exit().

Poll reports an FD is readable when it reaches EOF.

The following patch works around this issue by terminating the otherwise
endless loop after read() returned nothing for the thousandth time in a
row.

You should stop reading the first time read() returns 0 i.e. EOF.

Tony.
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