lix/doc/manual/rl-next/haunted-gc-macos.md
jade 1437d3df15 darwin: workaround PROC_PIDLISTFDS on processes with no fds
This has been causing various seemingly spurious CI failures as well as
some failures on people running tests on beta builds.

lix> ++(nix-collect-garbage-dry-run.sh:20) nix-store --gc --print-dead
lix> ++(nix-collect-garbage-dry-run.sh:20) wc -l
lix> finding garbage collector roots...
lix> error: Listing pid 87261 file descriptors: Undefined error: 0

There is no real way to write a proper test for this, other than to
start a process like the following:

int main(void) {
    for (int i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) {
        close(i);
    }
    sleep(10000);
}

and then let Lix's gc look at it.

I have a relatively high confidence this *will* fix the problem since I
have manually confirmed the behaviour of the libproc call is
as-unexpected, and it would perfectly explain the observed symptom.

Fixes: lix-project/lix#446
Change-Id: I67669b98377af17895644b3bafdf42fc33abd076
2024-08-07 02:52:00 -07:00

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Fix unexpectedly-successful GC failures on macOS 1723 fj#446 jade Fixes

Has the following happened to you on macOS? This failure has been successfully eliminated, thanks to our successful deployment of advanced successful-failure detection technology (it's just if (failed && errno == 0). Patent pendingnot really):

$ nix-store --gc --print-dead
finding garbage collector roots...
error: Listing pid 87261 file descriptors: Undefined error: 0