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-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/Gcf2Client.pm57
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/Git.pm254
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/GitAsyncCat.pm98
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/LeiToMail.pm2
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/ViewVCS.pm2
5 files changed, 151 insertions, 262 deletions
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Gcf2Client.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Gcf2Client.pm
index a49e2aad..8f442787 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Gcf2Client.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Gcf2Client.pm
@@ -3,14 +3,15 @@
 
 # connects public-inbox processes to PublicInbox::Gcf2::loop()
 package PublicInbox::Gcf2Client;
-use strict;
+use v5.12;
 use parent qw(PublicInbox::DS);
 use PublicInbox::Git;
 use PublicInbox::Gcf2; # fails if Inline::C or libgit2-dev isn't available
 use PublicInbox::Spawn qw(spawn);
 use Socket qw(AF_UNIX SOCK_STREAM);
 use PublicInbox::Syscall qw(EPOLLIN EPOLLET);
-use PublicInbox::DS qw(awaitpid);
+use PublicInbox::ProcessPipe;
+
 # fields:
 #        sock => socket to Gcf2::loop
 # The rest of these fields are compatible with what PublicInbox::Git
@@ -21,66 +22,36 @@ use PublicInbox::DS qw(awaitpid);
 #        inflight => array (see PublicInbox::Git)
 #        rbuf => scalarref, may be non-existent or empty
 sub new  {
-        my ($rdr) = @_;
+        my ($opt) = @_;
         my $self = bless {}, __PACKAGE__;
         # ensure the child process has the same @INC we do:
         my $env = { PERL5LIB => join(':', @INC) };
         my ($s1, $s2);
         socketpair($s1, $s2, AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) or die "socketpair $!";
-        $rdr //= {};
-        $rdr->{0} = $rdr->{1} = $s2;
-        my $cmd = [$^X, qw[-MPublicInbox::Gcf2 -e PublicInbox::Gcf2::loop]];
-        $self->{'pid.owner'} = $$;
-        awaitpid($self->{pid} = spawn($cmd, $env, $rdr), undef);
         $s1->blocking(0);
+        $opt->{0} = $opt->{1} = $s2;
+        my $cmd = [$^X, qw[-MPublicInbox::Gcf2 -e PublicInbox::Gcf2::loop]];
+        my $pid = spawn($cmd, $env, $opt);
+        my $sock = PublicInbox::ProcessPipe->maybe_new($pid, $s1);
         $self->{inflight} = [];
-        $self->{in} = $s1;
-        $self->SUPER::new($s1, EPOLLIN|EPOLLET);
-}
-
-sub fail {
-        my $self = shift;
-        $self->close; # PublicInbox::DS::close
-        PublicInbox::Git::fail($self, @_);
+        $self->{epwatch} = \undef; # for Git->cleanup
+        $self->SUPER::new($sock, EPOLLIN|EPOLLET);
 }
 
 sub gcf2_async ($$$;$) {
         my ($self, $req, $cb, $arg) = @_;
         my $inflight = $self->{inflight} or return $self->close;
-
-        # {wbuf} is rare, I hope:
-        cat_async_step($self, $inflight) if $self->{wbuf};
-
-        $self->fail("gcf2c write: $!") if !$self->write($req) && !$self->{sock};
+        PublicInbox::Git::write_all($self, $$req, \&cat_async_step, $inflight);
         push @$inflight, $req, $cb, $arg;
 }
 
 # ensure PublicInbox::Git::cat_async_step never calls cat_async_retry
 sub alternates_changed {}
 
-# DS::event_loop will call this
-sub event_step {
-        my ($self) = @_;
-        $self->flush_write;
-        $self->close if !$self->{in} || !$self->{sock}; # process died
-        my $inflight = $self->{inflight};
-        if ($inflight && @$inflight) {
-                cat_async_step($self, $inflight);
-                return $self->close unless $self->{in}; # process died
-
-                # ok, more to do, requeue for fairness
-                $self->requeue if @$inflight || exists($self->{rbuf});
-        }
-}
-
-sub DESTROY {
-        my ($self) = @_;
-        delete $self->{sock}; # if outside event_loop
-        PublicInbox::Git::DESTROY($self);
-}
-
 no warnings 'once';
 
-*cat_async_step = \&PublicInbox::Git::cat_async_step;
+*cat_async_step = \&PublicInbox::Git::cat_async_step; # for event_step
+*event_step = \&PublicInbox::Git::event_step;
+*DESTROY = \&PublicInbox::Git::DESTROY;
 
 1;
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Git.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Git.pm
index 8ac40d2b..3062f293 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Git.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Git.pm
@@ -9,23 +9,23 @@
 package PublicInbox::Git;
 use strict;
 use v5.10.1;
-use parent qw(Exporter);
+use parent qw(Exporter PublicInbox::DS);
 use POSIX ();
-use IO::Handle; # ->autoflush
+use IO::Handle; # ->blocking
+use Socket qw(AF_UNIX SOCK_STREAM);
+use PublicInbox::Syscall qw(EPOLLIN EPOLLET);
 use Errno qw(EINTR EAGAIN);
 use File::Glob qw(bsd_glob GLOB_NOSORT);
 use File::Spec ();
 use Time::HiRes qw(stat);
-use PublicInbox::Spawn qw(popen_rd which);
+use PublicInbox::Spawn qw(spawn popen_rd which);
 use PublicInbox::Tmpfile;
 use IO::Poll qw(POLLIN);
 use Carp qw(croak carp);
 use PublicInbox::SHA ();
-use PublicInbox::DS qw(awaitpid);
 our %HEXLEN2SHA = (40 => 1, 64 => 256);
 our %OFMT2HEXLEN = (sha1 => 40, sha256 => 64);
 our @EXPORT_OK = qw(git_unquote git_quote %HEXLEN2SHA %OFMT2HEXLEN);
-our $PIPE_BUFSIZ = 65536; # Linux default
 our $in_cleanup;
 our $RDTIMEO = 60_000; # milliseconds
 our $async_warn; # true in read-only daemons
@@ -34,11 +34,8 @@ our $async_warn; # true in read-only daemons
 my @MODIFIED_DATE = qw[for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate
                         --format=%(committerdate:raw) --count=1];
 
-# 512: POSIX PIPE_BUF minimum (see pipe(7))
-# 65: SHA-256 hex size + "\n" in preparation for git using non-SHA1
-# 3: @$inflight is flattened [ $OID, $cb, $arg ]
 use constant {
-        MAX_INFLIGHT => int(512 / (65 + length('contents '))) * 3,
+        MAX_INFLIGHT => 18, # arbitrary, formerly based on PIPE_BUF
         BATCH_CMD_VER => v2.36.0, # git 2.36+
 };
 
@@ -65,7 +62,7 @@ sub check_git_exe () {
         if ($st ne $EXE_ST) {
                 my $rd = popen_rd([ $GIT_EXE, '--version' ]);
                 my $v = readline($rd);
-                close($rd) or die "$GIT_EXE --version: $?";
+                CORE::close($rd) or die "$GIT_EXE --version: $?";
                 $v =~ /\b([0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+){2})/ or die
                         "$GIT_EXE --version output: $v # unparseable";
                 $GIT_VER = eval("v$1") // die "BUG: bad vstring: $1 ($v)";
@@ -144,17 +141,16 @@ sub last_check_err {
         $buf;
 }
 
-sub _bidi_pipe {
-        my ($self, $batch, $in, $out, $pid, $err) = @_;
-        if (defined $self->{$pid}) {
-                Carp::cluck("BUG: self->{$pid} exists unexpectedly");
-                return;
-        }
-        pipe(my ($out_r, $out_w)) or $self->fail("pipe failed: $!");
-        my $rdr = { 0 => $out_r, pgid => 0 };
+sub _sock_cmd {
+        my ($self, $batch, $err_c) = @_;
+        $self->{sock} and Carp::confess('BUG: {sock} exists');
+        my ($s1, $s2);
+        socketpair($s1, $s2, AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) or die "socketpair $!";
+        $s1->blocking(0);
+        my $opt = { pgid => 0, 0 => $s2, 1 => $s2 };
         my $gd = $self->{git_dir};
         if ($gd =~ s!/([^/]+/[^/]+)\z!/!) {
-                $rdr->{-C} = $gd;
+                $opt->{-C} = $gd;
                 $gd = $1;
         }
 
@@ -163,23 +159,13 @@ sub _bidi_pipe {
         my $abbr = $GIT_VER lt v2.31.0 ? 40 : 'no';
         my @cmd = ($GIT_EXE, "--git-dir=$gd", '-c', "core.abbrev=$abbr",
                         'cat-file', "--$batch");
-        if ($err) {
+        if ($err_c) {
                 my $id = "git.$self->{git_dir}.$batch.err";
-                $self->{$err} = $rdr->{2} = tmpfile($id, undef, 1) or
+                $self->{err_c} = $opt->{2} = tmpfile($id, undef, 1) or
                                                 $self->fail("tmpfile($id): $!");
         }
-        # see lib/PublicInbox/ProcessPipe.pm for why we don't use that here
-        my ($in_r, $p) = popen_rd(\@cmd, undef, $rdr);
-        awaitpid($self->{$pid} = $p, undef);
-        $self->{"$pid.owner"} = $$;
-        $out_w->autoflush(1);
-        if ($^O eq 'linux') { # 1031: F_SETPIPE_SZ
-                fcntl($out_w, 1031, 4096);
-                fcntl($in_r, 1031, 4096) if $batch eq 'batch-check';
-        }
-        $out_w->blocking(0);
-        $self->{$out} = $out_w;
-        $self->{$in} = $in_r;
+        my $pid = spawn(\@cmd, undef, $opt);
+        $self->{sock} = PublicInbox::ProcessPipe->maybe_new($pid, $s1);
 }
 
 sub poll_in ($) { IO::Poll::_poll($RDTIMEO, fileno($_[0]), my $ev = POLLIN) }
@@ -189,7 +175,7 @@ sub my_read ($$$) {
         my $left = $len - length($$rbuf);
         my $r;
         while ($left > 0) {
-                $r = sysread($fh, $$rbuf, $PIPE_BUFSIZ, length($$rbuf));
+                $r = sysread($fh, $$rbuf, $left, length($$rbuf));
                 if ($r) {
                         $left -= $r;
                 } elsif (defined($r)) { # EOF
@@ -210,8 +196,7 @@ sub my_readline ($$) {
                 if ((my $n = index($$rbuf, "\n")) >= 0) {
                         return substr($$rbuf, 0, $n + 1, '');
                 }
-                my $r = sysread($fh, $$rbuf, $PIPE_BUFSIZ, length($$rbuf))
-                                                                and next;
+                my $r = sysread($fh, $$rbuf, 65536, length($$rbuf)) and next;
 
                 # return whatever's left on EOF
                 return substr($$rbuf, 0, length($$rbuf)+1, '') if defined($r);
@@ -229,11 +214,10 @@ sub cat_async_retry ($$) {
         # here to prevent cleanup() from waiting:
         delete $self->{inflight};
         cleanup($self);
-        batch_prepare($self, my $new_inflight = []);
+        my $new_inflight = batch_prepare($self);
 
         while (my ($oid, $cb, $arg) = splice(@$old_inflight, 0, 3)) {
-                write_all($self, $self->{out}, $oid."\n",
-                                \&cat_async_step, $new_inflight);
+                write_all($self, $oid."\n", \&cat_async_step, $new_inflight);
                 $oid = \$oid if !@$new_inflight; # to indicate oid retried
                 push @$new_inflight, $oid, $cb, $arg;
         }
@@ -246,7 +230,7 @@ sub async_prefetch {
         my $inflight = $self->{inflight} or return;
         return if @$inflight;
         substr($oid, 0, 0) = 'contents ' if $self->{-bc};
-        write_all($self, $self->{out}, "$oid\n", \&cat_async_step, $inflight);
+        write_all($self, "$oid\n", \&cat_async_step, $inflight);
         push(@$inflight, $oid, $cb, $arg);
 }
 
@@ -256,14 +240,14 @@ sub cat_async_step ($$) {
         my ($req, $cb, $arg) = @$inflight[0, 1, 2];
         my $rbuf = delete($self->{rbuf}) // \(my $new = '');
         my ($bref, $oid, $type, $size);
-        my $head = my_readline($self->{in}, $rbuf);
+        my $head = my_readline($self->{sock}, $rbuf);
         my $cmd = ref($req) ? $$req : $req;
         # ->fail may be called via Gcf2Client.pm
         my $info = $self->{-bc} && substr($cmd, 0, 5) eq 'info ';
         if ($head =~ /^([0-9a-f]{40,}) (\S+) ([0-9]+)$/) {
                 ($oid, $type, $size) = ($1, $2, $3 + 0);
                 unless ($info) { # --batch-command
-                        $bref = my_read($self->{in}, $rbuf, $size + 1) or
+                        $bref = my_read($self->{sock}, $rbuf, $size + 1) or
                                 $self->fail(defined($bref) ?
                                                 'read EOF' : "read: $!");
                         chop($$bref) eq "\n" or
@@ -302,16 +286,16 @@ sub cat_async_wait ($) {
         }
 }
 
-sub batch_prepare ($$) {
-        my ($self, $inflight) = @_;
+sub batch_prepare ($) {
+        my ($self) = @_;
         check_git_exe();
         if ($GIT_VER ge BATCH_CMD_VER) {
-                _bidi_pipe($self, qw(batch-command in out pid err_c));
                 $self->{-bc} = 1;
+                _sock_cmd($self, 'batch-command', 1);
         } else {
-                _bidi_pipe($self, qw(batch in out pid));
+                _sock_cmd($self, 'batch');
         }
-        $self->{inflight} = $inflight;
+        $self->{inflight} = [];
 }
 
 sub _cat_file_cb {
@@ -328,52 +312,59 @@ sub cat_file {
 }
 
 sub check_async_step ($$) {
-        my ($self, $inflight_c) = @_;
-        die 'BUG: inflight empty or odd' if scalar(@$inflight_c) < 3;
-        my ($req, $cb, $arg) = @$inflight_c[0, 1, 2];
-        my $rbuf = delete($self->{rbuf_c}) // \(my $new = '');
-        chomp(my $line = my_readline($self->{in_c}, $rbuf));
+        my ($ck, $inflight) = @_;
+        die 'BUG: inflight empty or odd' if scalar(@$inflight) < 3;
+        my ($req, $cb, $arg) = @$inflight[0, 1, 2];
+        my $rbuf = delete($ck->{rbuf}) // \(my $new = '');
+        chomp(my $line = my_readline($ck->{sock}, $rbuf));
         my ($hex, $type, $size) = split(/ /, $line);
 
         # git <2.21 would show `dangling' (2.21+ shows `ambiguous')
         # https://public-inbox.org/git/20190118033845.s2vlrb3wd3m2jfzu@dcvr/T/
         if ($hex eq 'dangling') {
-                my $ret = my_read($self->{in_c}, $rbuf, $type + 1);
-                $self->fail(defined($ret) ? 'read EOF' : "read: $!") if !$ret;
+                my $ret = my_read($ck->{sock}, $rbuf, $type + 1);
+                $ck->fail(defined($ret) ? 'read EOF' : "read: $!") if !$ret;
         }
-        $self->{rbuf_c} = $rbuf if $$rbuf ne '';
-        splice(@$inflight_c, 0, 3); # don't retry $cb on ->fail
+        $ck->{rbuf} = $rbuf if $$rbuf ne '';
+        splice(@$inflight, 0, 3); # don't retry $cb on ->fail
         eval { $cb->(undef, $hex, $type, $size, $arg) };
-        async_err($self, $req, $hex, $@, 'check') if $@;
+        async_err($ck, $req, $hex, $@, 'check') if $@;
 }
 
 sub check_async_wait ($) {
         my ($self) = @_;
         return cat_async_wait($self) if $self->{-bc};
-        my $inflight_c = $self->{inflight_c} or return;
-        check_async_step($self, $inflight_c) while (scalar(@$inflight_c));
+        my $ck = $self->{ck} or return;
+        my $inflight = $ck->{inflight} or return;
+        check_async_step($ck, $inflight) while (scalar(@$inflight));
+}
+
+# git <2.36
+sub ck {
+        $_[0]->{ck} //= bless { git_dir => $_[0]->{git_dir} },
+                                'PublicInbox::GitCheck';
 }
 
 sub check_async_begin ($) {
         my ($self) = @_;
-        die 'BUG: already in async check' if $self->{inflight_c};
         cleanup($self) if alternates_changed($self);
         check_git_exe();
         if ($GIT_VER ge BATCH_CMD_VER) {
-                _bidi_pipe($self, qw(batch-command in out pid err_c));
                 $self->{-bc} = 1;
-                $self->{inflight} = [];
+                _sock_cmd($self, 'batch-command', 1);
         } else {
-                _bidi_pipe($self, qw(batch-check in_c out_c pid_c err_c));
-                $self->{inflight_c} = [];
+                _sock_cmd($self = ck($self), 'batch-check', 1);
         }
+        $self->{inflight} = [];
 }
 
 sub write_all {
-        my ($self, $out, $buf, $read_step, $inflight) = @_;
+        my ($self, $buf, $read_step, $inflight) = @_;
+        $self->{sock} // Carp::confess 'BUG: no {sock}';
+        Carp::confess('BUG: not an array') if ref($inflight) ne 'ARRAY';
         $read_step->($self, $inflight) while @$inflight >= MAX_INFLIGHT;
         do {
-                my $w = syswrite($out, $buf);
+                my $w = syswrite($self->{sock}, $buf);
                 if (defined $w) {
                         return if $w == length($buf);
                         substr($buf, 0, $w, ''); # sv_chop
@@ -386,16 +377,17 @@ sub write_all {
 
 sub check_async ($$$$) {
         my ($self, $oid, $cb, $arg) = @_;
-        my $inflight = $self->{-bc} ?
-                        ($self->{inflight} // cat_async_begin($self)) :
-                        ($self->{inflight_c} // check_async_begin($self));
-        if ($self->{-bc}) {
+        my $inflight;
+        if ($self->{-bc}) { # likely as time goes on
+batch_command:
+                $inflight = $self->{inflight} // cat_async_begin($self);
                 substr($oid, 0, 0) = 'info ';
-                write_all($self, $self->{out}, "$oid\n",
-                                \&cat_async_step, $inflight);
-        } else {
-                write_all($self, $self->{out_c}, "$oid\n",
-                                \&check_async_step, $inflight);
+                write_all($self, "$oid\n", \&cat_async_step, $inflight);
+        } else { # accounts for git upgrades while we're running:
+                my $ck = $self->{ck}; # undef OK, maybe set in check_async_begin
+                $inflight = $ck->{inflight} // check_async_begin($self);
+                goto batch_command if $self->{-bc};
+                write_all($self->{ck}, "$oid\n", \&check_async_step, $inflight);
         }
         push(@$inflight, $oid, $cb, $arg);
 }
@@ -418,39 +410,9 @@ sub check {
         ($hex, $type, $size);
 }
 
-sub _destroy {
-        my ($self, $pid, @rest) = @_; # rest = rbuf, in, out, err
-        my ($p) = delete @$self{($pid, @rest)};
-
-        # GitAsyncCat::event_step may delete {$pid}
-        awaitpid($p) if defined($p) && $$ == $self->{"$pid.owner"};
-}
-
-sub async_abort ($) {
-        my ($self) = @_;
-        while (scalar(@{$self->{inflight_c} // []}) ||
-                        scalar(@{$self->{inflight} // []})) {
-                for my $c ('', '_c') {
-                        my $q = $self->{"inflight$c"} or next;
-                        while (@$q) {
-                                my ($req, $cb, $arg) = splice(@$q, 0, 3);
-                                $req = $$req if ref($req);
-                                $self->{-bc} and
-                                        $req =~ s/\A(?:contents|info) //;
-                                $req =~ s/ .*//; # drop git_dir for Gcf2Client
-                                eval { $cb->(undef, $req, undef, undef, $arg) };
-                                warn "E: (in abort) $req: $@" if $@;
-                        }
-                        delete $self->{"inflight$c"};
-                        delete $self->{"rbuf$c"};
-                }
-        }
-        cleanup($self);
-}
-
-sub fail { # may be augmented in subclasses
+sub fail {
         my ($self, $msg) = @_;
-        async_abort($self);
+        $self->close;
         croak(ref($self) . ' ' . ($self->{git_dir} // '') . ": $msg");
 }
 
@@ -475,12 +437,12 @@ sub qx {
         my $fh = popen(@_);
         if (wantarray) {
                 my @ret = <$fh>;
-                close $fh; # caller should check $?
+                CORE::close $fh; # caller should check $?
                 @ret;
         } else {
                 local $/;
                 my $ret = <$fh>;
-                close $fh; # caller should check $?
+                CORE::close $fh; # caller should check $?
                 $ret;
         }
 }
@@ -492,12 +454,16 @@ sub date_parse {
         } $self->qx('rev-parse', map { "--since=$_" } @_);
 }
 
+sub _active ($) {
+        scalar(@{$_[0]->{inflight} // []}) ||
+                ($_[0]->{ck} && scalar(@{$_[0]->{ck}->{inflight} // []}))
+}
+
 # check_async and cat_async may trigger the other, so ensure they're
 # both completely done by using this:
 sub async_wait_all ($) {
         my ($self) = @_;
-        while (scalar(@{$self->{inflight_c} // []}) ||
-                        scalar(@{$self->{inflight} // []})) {
+        while (_active($self)) {
                 check_async_wait($self);
                 cat_async_wait($self);
         }
@@ -506,14 +472,10 @@ sub async_wait_all ($) {
 # returns true if there are pending "git cat-file" processes
 sub cleanup {
         my ($self, $lazy) = @_;
-        return 1 if $lazy && (scalar(@{$self->{inflight_c} // []}) ||
-                                scalar(@{$self->{inflight} // []}));
+        return 1 if $lazy && _active($self);
         local $in_cleanup = 1;
-        delete @$self{qw(async_cat async_chk)};
         async_wait_all($self);
-        delete @$self{qw(inflight inflight_c -bc)};
-        _destroy($self, qw(pid rbuf in out err_c));
-        _destroy($self, qw(pid_c rbuf_c in_c out_c err_c));
+        $_->close for ($self, (delete($self->{ck}) // ()));
         undef;
 }
 
@@ -530,7 +492,7 @@ sub packed_bytes {
         $n
 }
 
-sub DESTROY { cleanup(@_) }
+sub DESTROY { cleanup($_[0]) }
 
 sub local_nick ($) {
         # don't show full FS path, basename should be OK:
@@ -571,14 +533,14 @@ sub cat_async_begin {
         my ($self) = @_;
         cleanup($self) if $self->alternates_changed;
         die 'BUG: already in async' if $self->{inflight};
-        batch_prepare($self, []);
+        batch_prepare($self);
 }
 
 sub cat_async ($$$;$) {
         my ($self, $oid, $cb, $arg) = @_;
         my $inflight = $self->{inflight} // cat_async_begin($self);
         substr($oid, 0, 0) = 'contents ' if $self->{-bc};
-        write_all($self, $self->{out}, $oid."\n", \&cat_async_step, $inflight);
+        write_all($self, $oid."\n", \&cat_async_step, $inflight);
         push(@$inflight, $oid, $cb, $arg);
 }
 
@@ -648,7 +610,7 @@ sub manifest_entry {
         }
         my $dig = PublicInbox::SHA->new(1);
         while (read($sr, $buf, 65536)) { $dig->add($buf) }
-        close $sr or return; # empty, uninitialized git repo
+        CORE::close $sr or return; # empty, uninitialized git repo
         $ent->{fingerprint} = $dig->hexdigest;
         $ent->{modified} = modified(undef, $mod);
         chomp($buf = <$own> // '');
@@ -664,8 +626,10 @@ sub cleanup_if_unlinked {
         # Linux-specific /proc/$PID/maps access
         # TODO: support this inside git.git
         my $ret = 0;
-        for my $fld (qw(pid pid_c)) {
-                my $pid = $self->{$fld} // next;
+        for my $obj ($self, ($self->{ck} // ())) {
+                my $sock = $obj->{sock} // next;
+                my PublicInbox::ProcessPipe $pp = tied *$sock; # ProcessPipe
+                my $pid = $pp->{pid} // next;
                 open my $fh, '<', "/proc/$pid/maps" or return cleanup($self, 1);
                 while (<$fh>) {
                         # n.b. we do not restart for unlinked multi-pack-index
@@ -679,6 +643,50 @@ sub cleanup_if_unlinked {
         $ret;
 }
 
+sub event_step {
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        $self->close if !$self->{sock}; # process died while requeued
+        my $inflight = $self->{inflight};
+        if ($inflight && @$inflight) {
+                $self->cat_async_step($inflight);
+                return $self->close unless $self->{sock};
+                # more to do? requeue for fairness:
+                $self->requeue if @$inflight || exists($self->{rbuf});
+        }
+}
+
+# idempotently registers with DS epoll/kqueue/select/poll
+sub watch_async ($) {
+        $_[0]->{epwatch} //= do {
+                $_[0]->SUPER::new($_[0]->{sock}, EPOLLIN|EPOLLET);
+                \undef;
+        }
+}
+
+sub close {
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        if (my $q = $self->{inflight}) { # abort inflight requests
+                while (@$q) {
+                        my ($req, $cb, $arg) = splice(@$q, 0, 3);
+                        $req = $$req if ref($req);
+                        $self->{-bc} and $req =~ s/\A(?:contents|info) //;
+                        $req =~ s/ .*//; # drop git_dir for Gcf2Client
+                        eval { $cb->(undef, $req, undef, undef, $arg) };
+                        warn "E: (in abort) $req: $@" if $@;
+                }
+        }
+        delete @$self{qw(-bc err_c inflight rbuf)};
+        delete($self->{epwatch}) ? $self->SUPER::close : delete($self->{sock});
+}
+
+package PublicInbox::GitCheck; # only for git <2.36
+use v5.12;
+our @ISA = qw(PublicInbox::Git);
+no warnings 'once';
+
+# for event_step
+*cat_async_step = \&PublicInbox::Git::check_async_step;
+
 1;
 __END__
 =pod
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/GitAsyncCat.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/GitAsyncCat.pm
index 671654b5..71ee1147 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/GitAsyncCat.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/GitAsyncCat.pm
@@ -1,70 +1,12 @@
 # Copyright (C) all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
 # License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
-#
-# internal class used by PublicInbox::Git + PublicInbox::DS
-# This parses the output pipe of "git cat-file --batch"
 package PublicInbox::GitAsyncCat;
 use v5.12;
-use parent qw(PublicInbox::DS Exporter);
-use PublicInbox::DS qw(awaitpid);
-use POSIX qw(WNOHANG);
-use PublicInbox::Syscall qw(EPOLLIN EPOLLET);
+use parent qw(Exporter);
 our @EXPORT = qw(ibx_async_cat ibx_async_prefetch async_check);
-use PublicInbox::Git ();
 
 our $GCF2C; # singleton PublicInbox::Gcf2Client
 
-# close w/o aborting another git process
-sub vanish {
-        delete $_[0]->{git};
-        $_[0]->close;
-}
-
-sub close {
-        my ($self) = @_;
-        if (my $git = delete $self->{git}) {
-                $git->async_abort;
-        }
-        $self->SUPER::close; # PublicInbox::DS::close
-}
-
-sub aclose {
-        my (undef, $self, $f) = @_; # ignore PID ($_[0])
-        if (my $g = $self->{git}) {
-                return vanish($self) if ($g->{$f} // 0) != ($self->{sock} // 1);
-        }
-        $self->close;
-}
-
-sub event_step {
-        my ($self) = @_;
-        my $git = $self->{git} or return;
-        return vanish($self) if ($git->{in} // 0) != ($self->{sock} // 1);
-        my $inflight = $git->{inflight};
-        if ($inflight && @$inflight) {
-                $git->cat_async_step($inflight);
-
-                # child death?
-                if (($git->{in} // 0) != ($self->{sock} // 1)) {
-                        vanish($self);
-                } elsif (@$inflight || exists $git->{rbuf}) {
-                        # ok, more to do, requeue for fairness
-                        $self->requeue;
-                }
-        }
-}
-
-sub watch_cat {
-        my ($git) = @_;
-        $git->{async_cat} //= do {
-                my $self = bless { git => $git }, __PACKAGE__;
-                $git->{in}->blocking(0);
-                $self->SUPER::new($git->{in}, EPOLLIN|EPOLLET);
-                awaitpid($git->{pid}, \&aclose, $self, 'in');
-                \undef; # this is a true ref()
-        };
-}
-
 sub ibx_async_cat ($$$$) {
         my ($ibx, $oid, $cb, $arg) = @_;
         my $git = $ibx->{git} // $ibx->git;
@@ -80,7 +22,7 @@ sub ibx_async_cat ($$$$) {
                 \undef;
         } else { # read-only end of git-cat-file pipe
                 $git->cat_async($oid, $cb, $arg);
-                watch_cat($git);
+                $git->watch_async;
         }
 }
 
@@ -88,14 +30,7 @@ sub async_check ($$$$) {
         my ($ibx, $oidish, $cb, $arg) = @_; # $ibx may be $ctx
         my $git = $ibx->{git} // $ibx->git;
         $git->check_async($oidish, $cb, $arg);
-        return watch_cat($git) if $git->{-bc}; # --batch-command
-        $git->{async_chk} //= do {
-                my $self = bless { git => $git }, 'PublicInbox::GitAsyncCheck';
-                $git->{in_c}->blocking(0);
-                $self->SUPER::new($git->{in_c}, EPOLLIN|EPOLLET);
-                awaitpid($git->{pid_c}, \&aclose, $self, 'in_c');
-                \undef; # this is a true ref()
-        };
+        ($git->{ck} // $git)->watch_async;
 }
 
 # this is safe to call inside $cb, but not guaranteed to enqueue
@@ -109,35 +44,10 @@ sub ibx_async_prefetch {
                         $oid .= " $git->{git_dir}\n";
                         return $GCF2C->gcf2_async(\$oid, $cb, $arg); # true
                 }
-        } elsif ($git->{async_cat}) {
+        } elsif ($git->{epwatch}) {
                 return $git->async_prefetch($oid, $cb, $arg);
         }
         undef;
 }
 
 1;
-package PublicInbox::GitAsyncCheck;
-use v5.12;
-our @ISA = qw(PublicInbox::GitAsyncCat);
-use POSIX qw(WNOHANG);
-use PublicInbox::Syscall qw(EPOLLIN EPOLLET);
-
-sub event_step {
-        my ($self) = @_;
-        my $git = $self->{git} or return;
-        return $self->vanish if ($git->{in_c} // 0) != ($self->{sock} // 1);
-        my $inflight = $git->{inflight_c};
-        if ($inflight && @$inflight) {
-                $git->check_async_step($inflight);
-
-                # child death?
-                if (($git->{in_c} // 0) != ($self->{sock} // 1)) {
-                        $self->vanish;
-                } elsif (@$inflight || exists $git->{rbuf_c}) {
-                        # ok, more to do, requeue for fairness
-                        $self->requeue;
-                }
-        }
-}
-
-1;
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiToMail.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiToMail.pm
index 2dddf00b..98d0ac19 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiToMail.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiToMail.pm
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ sub eml2mboxcl2 {
 sub git_to_mail { # git->cat_async callback
         my ($bref, $oid, $type, $size, $smsg) = @_;
         my $self = delete $smsg->{l2m} // die "BUG: no l2m";
-        $type // return; # called by git->async_abort
+        $type // return; # called by PublicInbox::Git::close
         eval {
                 if ($type eq 'missing' &&
                           ($bref = $self->{-lms_rw}->local_blob($oid, 1))) {
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/ViewVCS.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/ViewVCS.pm
index 5529ed5b..f80fb4cb 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/ViewVCS.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/ViewVCS.pm
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ sub do_cat_async {
         # favor git(1) over Gcf2 (libgit2) for SHA-256 support
         $ctx->{git}->cat_async($_, $cb, $ctx) for @req;
         if ($ctx->{env}->{'pi-httpd.async'}) {
-                PublicInbox::GitAsyncCat::watch_cat($ctx->{git});
+                $ctx->{git}->watch_async;
         } else { # synchronous, generic PSGI
                 $ctx->{git}->cat_async_wait;
         }