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Re: [PATCH 15/18] gitweb: Add show_warning() to display an immediate warning, with refresh

From: Jakub Narebski <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:50:13

On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, J.H. wrote:
On 12/09/2010 05:01 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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"John 'Warthog9' Hawley" [off-list ref] writes:
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die_error() is an immediate and abrupt action.  show_warning() more or less
functions identically, except that the page generated doesn't use the
gitweb header or footer (in case they are broken) and has an auto-refresh
(10 seconds) built into it.
Why not use gitweb header/footer?  If they are broken, it should be
caught in git development.  If we don't se them, the show_warning()
output would look out of place.
The only other 'transient' style page, the 'Generating...' page doesn't
use it, and I felt that since this was also transient, and only (likely)
to be seen once it wasn't worth the header & footer.

That said I've added it back in, in v9.
Well, the contents and feel of show_warning() is more like die_error()
rather than "Generating..." page, so I feel that if die_error() conforms
to style of rest of gitweb pages, then show_warning() should too.
 
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+sub show_warning {
+	$| = 1;
  +	local $| = 1;

$| is global variable, and otherwise you would turn autoflush for all
code, which would matter e.g. for FastCGI.
Since the execution exits immediately after, wouldn't FastCGI reset at
that point, since execution of that thread has stopped?  Or does FastCGI
retain everything as is across subsequent executions of a process?
Well, with exit(0) it is a moot point... but it is good habit to localize
punctation variables ($|, $/,)
 
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+<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10"/>
Why 10 seconds?
Long enough to see the error, but not too long to be a nuisance.  Mainly
just there to warn the admin that it did something automatic they may
not have been expecting.
A comment if you please, then?
 
Hmmm... I guess there is no ned to make it configurable.
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+</head>
+<body>
+$warning
+</body>
+</html>
+EOF
+	exit(0);
"exit(0)" and not "goto DONE_GITWEB", or "goto DONE_REQUEST"?
DONE_REQUEST doesn't actually exist as a label,
Errr... DONE_REQUEST was introduced in

  [PATCH/RFC] gitweb: Go to DONE_REQUEST rather than DONE_GITWEB in die_error
  Message-ID: [ref]
  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/162156

the exit was used 
partially for my lack of love for goto's, but mostly out of not
realizing what that was calling back to (mainly for the excitement of
things like PSGI and their ilk)

You would have to do more than that.  ModPerl::Registry that is used
for mod_perl support (which as deployment is I guess more widespread
than PSGI via wrapper using Plack::App::WrapCGI, or FastCGI deployment)
redefines 'exit' so that CGI scripts that use 'exit' to end request
keep working without need to restart worker at each request; for real
exit, for example from background process, you need to use CORE::exit.
See e.g. http://repo.or.cz/w/git/jnareb-git.git/commitdiff/8bd99a6d37cc
the ->_set_maybe_background() method.
I will change that that, but considering there are other locations where
I do explicit exit's and those are actually inherent to the way the
caching engine currently works, I might need to go take a look at what's
going on with respect to multi-threaded items inside of PSGI and their
like.  It's possible the caching engine doesn't actually work on those...
That would be a pity.  In my rewrite I tried to take into acount both
non-persistent (plain CGI, running as script) and persistent (mod_perl,
FastCGI, PSGI) web environments.
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+}
+
 sub isBinaryAction {
 	my ($action) = @_;
Didn't you ran gitweb tests?
I did, they passed for me - for whatever reason my cache dir wasn't
cleaned up, and stayed resident once it was created.
Hmmm... I wonder why new tests in t9502 and t9503 didn't pass for me...


P.S. I'll write separate email about problems with die_error, die-ing
and output caching.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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