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fsmonitor: use pthread_cond_timedwait for cookie wait

The cookie wait in with_lock__wait_for_cookie() uses an infinite pthread_cond_wait() loop. The existing comment notes the desire to switch to pthread_cond_timedwait(), but the routine was not available in git thread-utils. On certain container or overlay filesystems, inotify watches may succeed but events are never delivered. In this case the daemon would hang indefinitely waiting for the cookie event, which in turn causes the client to hang. Replace the infinite wait with a one-second timeout using pthread_cond_timedwait(). If the timeout fires, report an error and let the client proceed with a trivial (full-scan) response rather than blocking forever. Signed-off-by: Paul Tarjan <github@paulisageek.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Paul Tarjan committed Apr 15, 2026 at 13:27 UTC 56cef9cb1a083c47b12b88548bf2126af8bfb263
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builtin/fsmonitor--daemon.c
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index d8d32b01ef..c8ec7b722e 100644 --- a/builtin/fsmonitor--daemon.c +++ b/builtin/fsmonitor--daemon.c @@ -197,20 +197,31 @@ static enum fsmonitor_cookie_item_result with_lock__wait_for_cookie( unlink(cookie_pathname.buf); /* - * Technically, this is an infinite wait (well, unless another - * thread sends us an abort). I'd like to change this to - * use `pthread_cond_timedwait()` and return an error/timeout - * and let the caller do the trivial response thing, but we - * don't have that routine in our thread-utils. - * - * After extensive beta testing I'm not really worried about - * this. Also note that the above open() and unlink() calls - * will cause at least two FS events on that path, so the odds - * of getting stuck are pretty slim. + * Wait for the listener thread to observe the cookie file. + * Time out after a short interval so that the client + * does not hang forever if the filesystem does not deliver + * events (e.g., on certain container/overlay filesystems + * where inotify watches succeed but events never arrive). */ - while (cookie->result == FCIR_INIT) - pthread_cond_wait(&state->cookies_cond, - &state->main_lock); + { + struct timeval now; + struct timespec ts; + int err = 0; + + gettimeofday(&now, NULL); + ts.tv_sec = now.tv_sec + 1; + ts.tv_nsec = now.tv_usec * 1000; + + while (cookie->result == FCIR_INIT && !err) + err = pthread_cond_timedwait(&state->cookies_cond, + &state->main_lock, + &ts); + if (err == ETIMEDOUT && cookie->result == FCIR_INIT) { + trace_printf_key(&trace_fsmonitor, + "cookie_wait timed out"); + cookie->result = FCIR_ERROR; + } + } done: hashmap_remove(&state->cookies, &cookie->entry, NULL);