Eric Wong authored Jun 26, 2016 and Junio C Hamano committed Jun 27, 2016

write(2) can hit the same EAGAIN/EWOULDBLOCK errors as read(2),
so busy-looping on a non-blocking FD is a waste of resources.

Currently, I do not know of a way for this happen:

* the NonBlocking directive in systemd does not apply to stdin,
  stdout, or stderr.

* xinetd provides no way to set the non-blocking flag at all

But theoretically, it's possible a careless C10K HTTP server
could use pipe2(..., O_NONBLOCK) to setup a pipe for
git-http-backend with only the intent to use non-blocking reads;
but accidentally leave non-blocking set on the write end passed
as stdout to git-upload-pack.

Followup-to: 1079c4be

 ("xread: poll on non blocking fds")

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>