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The git_connect function returns two ends of a pipe for talking with a remote, plus a struct child_process representing the other end of the pipe. If we have a direct socket connection, then this points to a special "no_fork" child process. The code path for doing git-over-pipes or git-over-ssh sets up this child process to point to the child git command or the ssh process. When we call finish_connect eventually, we check wait() on the command and report its return value. The code path for git://, on the other hand, always sets it to no_fork. In the case of a direct TCP connection, this makes sense; we have no child process. But in the case of a proxy command (configured by core.gitproxy), we do have a child process, but we throw away its pid, and therefore ignore its return code. Instead, let's keep that information in the proxy case, and respect its return code, which can help catch some errors (though depending on your proxy command, it will be errors reported by the proxy command itself, and not propagated from git commands. Still, it is probably better to propagate such errors than to ignore them). It also means that the child_process field can reliably be used to determine whether the returned descriptors are actually a full-duplex socket, which means we should be using shutdown() instead of a simple close. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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