Max Brunsfeld
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When restarting Zed, I hit a bug where all Git operations were hung. I realized that there was a hanging git process running `git cat-file --batch-check=%(objectname)`. The process was waiting on stdin. This was surprising, because [the code](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/e2bbdb19b6da2ee157ca1d36100acde2134a1663/crates/git/src/repository.rs#L1665-L1709) that spawns this process explicitly closes the pipe that is attached to the process's stdin after writing a list of ref names. Using Claude, I found that this could be caused by that pipe file descriptor being cloned due to file descriptor inheritance when another child process is `exec`'d while that stdin pipe is open. The fix is to enhance our Darwin process spawning layer to set the close-on-exec flag for the pipe file descriptors, so that they are not inherited by child processes spawned using code paths that don't set `POSIX_SPAWN_CLOEXEC_DEFAULT`. Release Notes: - Fixed a bug on macOS where Git operations could be blocked depending on the timing of spawning child processes.
Zed
Welcome to Zed, a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Installation
On macOS, Linux, and Windows you can download Zed directly or install Zed via your local package manager (macOS/Linux/Windows).
Other platforms are not yet available:
- Web (tracking issue)
Developing Zed
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md for ways you can contribute to Zed.
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Licensing
License information for third party dependencies must be correctly provided for CI to pass.
We use cargo-about to automatically comply with open source licenses. If CI is failing, check the following:
- Is it showing a
no license specifiederror for a crate you've created? If so, addpublish = falseunder[package]in your crate's Cargo.toml. - Is the error
failed to satisfy license requirementsfor a dependency? If so, first determine what license the project has and whether this system is sufficient to comply with this license's requirements. If you're unsure, ask a lawyer. Once you've verified that this system is acceptable add the license's SPDX identifier to theacceptedarray inscript/licenses/zed-licenses.toml. - Is
cargo-aboutunable to find the license for a dependency? If so, add a clarification field at the end ofscript/licenses/zed-licenses.toml, as specified in the cargo-about book.
Sponsorship
Zed is developed by Zed Industries, Inc., a for-profit company.
If you’d like to financially support the project, you can do so via GitHub Sponsors. Sponsorships go directly to Zed Industries and are used as general company revenue. There are no perks or entitlements associated with sponsorship.