fsync(): be prepared to see EINTR

Some platforms, like NonStop do not automatically restart fsync() when interrupted by a signal, even when that signal is setup with SA_RESTART. This can lead to test breakage, e.g., where "--progress" is used, thus SIGALRM is sent often, and can interrupt an fsync() syscall. Make sure we deal with such a case by retrying the syscall ourselves. Luckily, we call fsync() fron a single wrapper, fsync_or_die(), so the fix is fairly isolated. Reported-by: Randall S. Becker <randall.becker@nexbridge.ca> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> [jc: the above two did most of the work---I just tied the loose end] Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed Jun 4, 2021 at 10:36 UTC cccdfd22436ede80b37311e73a5c8339054a7ff1
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write-or-die.c
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index eab8c8d0b9..d33e68f6ab 100644 --- a/write-or-die.c +++ b/write-or-die.c @@ -57,8 +57,9 @@ void fprintf_or_die(FILE *f, const char *fmt, ...) void fsync_or_die(int fd, const char *msg) { - if (fsync(fd) < 0) { - die_errno("fsync error on '%s'", msg); + while (fsync(fd) < 0) { + if (errno != EINTR) + die_errno("fsync error on '%s'", msg); } }