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Guile's "sleep pipe" can leak into processes created by 'spawn'

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Message #52 received at 62334 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Greg Hogan <code <at> greghogan.com>
Cc: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>, 63024 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 62334 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 57391 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#63024: Crash during `guix import pypi -r'
Date: Fri, 05 May 2023 10:54:13 +0200

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

> 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.

… and updated the ‘guix’ package in
3c91f4ca490a7ac56dc0aebbca9c4bf4df201877, which should address
‘connect*’ timeout issues that were coming from ‘guix substitute’.

Ludo’.

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