GNU bug report logs - #62334
Guile's "sleep pipe" can leak into processes created by 'spawn'

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Greg Hogan <code <at> greghogan.com>
Cc: 63024 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 62334 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>, Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#62334: bug#63024: Crash during `guix import pypi -r'
Date: Thu, 04 May 2023 13:13:11 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> First, the person who wrote ‘connect*’ *cough* hadn’t carefully read the
> Guile manual, which reads (info "(guile) Ports and File Descriptors"):
>
>   Note that ‘select’ may return early for other reasons, for example due
>   to pending interrupts.
>
> Clearly, ‘select’ is returning early, so we should check that and loop.

Pushed a fix for that in fc6c96c88a0e4ad0b9e48272e5f97ffaa6eec36e.

Ludo’.

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