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| author | Junegunn Choi <junegunn.c@gmail.com> | 2024-01-21 22:58:18 +0900 |
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| committer | Junegunn Choi <junegunn.c@gmail.com> | 2024-01-21 23:04:37 +0900 |
| commit | 7484292e63f0dabca4cccdca136f6a6d105b3b79 (patch) | |
| tree | 90deb960a810a9a1125c3374f921097779d248cb /man | |
| parent | 687c2741b8d5c0cfcd0b318596cd04914fecf4e9 (diff) | |
Avoid deadlocks by adding a 2 second timeout to GET / endpoint
Because fzf processes HTTP GET requests in the main event loop,
accessing the endpoint from within execute/transform actions would
result in a deadlock and hang fzf indefinitely. This commit sets
a 2 second timeout to avoid the deadlock.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man1/fzf.1 | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/fzf.1 b/man/man1/fzf.1 index 2a528e22..d5fc96ff 100644 --- a/man/man1/fzf.1 +++ b/man/man1/fzf.1 @@ -831,12 +831,14 @@ e.g. \fB# Start HTTP server on port 6266 fzf --listen 6266 - # Get program state in JSON format (experimental) - curl localhost:6266 - # Send action to the server curl -XPOST localhost:6266 -d 'reload(seq 100)+change-prompt(hundred> )' + # Get program state in JSON format (experimental) + # * Make sure NOT to access this endpoint from execute/transform actions + # as it will result in a timeout + curl localhost:6266 + # Start HTTP server on port 6266 with remote connections allowed # * Listening on non-localhost address requires using an API key export FZF_API_KEY="$(head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64)" |