credential-cache: ignore "connection refused" errors

The credential-cache helper will try to connect to its
daemon over a unix socket. Originally, a failure to do so
was silently ignored, and we would either give up (if
performing a "get" or "erase" operation), or spawn a new
daemon (for a "store" operation).

But since 8ec6c8d, we try to report more errors. We detect a
missing daemon by checking for ENOENT on our connection
attempt.  If the daemon is missing, we continue as before
(giving up or spawning a new daemon). For any other error,
we die and report the problem.

However, checking for ENOENT is not sufficient for a missing
daemon. We might also get ECONNREFUSED if a dead daemon
process left a stale socket. This generally shouldn't
happen, as the daemon cleans up after itself, but the daemon
may not always be given a chance to do so (e.g., power loss,
"kill -9").

The resulting state is annoying not just because the helper
outputs an extra useless message, but because it actually
blocks the helper from spawning a new daemon to replace the
stale socket.

Fix it by checking for ECONNREFUSED.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/credential-cache.c b/credential-cache.c
index 193301877f1ee29f54c2da0b933d9b7fe10f157a..9a03792c7de109e957a1f01924c4f66ba87b5c87 100644 (file)
--- a/credential-cache.c
+++ b/credential-cache.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static void do_cache(const char *socket, const char *action, int timeout,
        }
 
        if (send_request(socket, &buf) < 0) {
-               if (errno != ENOENT)
+               if (errno != ENOENT && errno != ECONNREFUSED)
                        die_errno("unable to connect to cache daemon");
                if (flags & FLAG_SPAWN) {
                        spawn_daemon(socket);