Calling git from PHP: Broken pipe error

Question

I have the following PHP script:

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
echo shell_exec(
  "/usr/bin/git clone --bare ".
  "/home/dave/create_project/template_project ".
  "/home/dave/create_project/my_test_project.git"
);

About 7 in 10 times that I run it, git gives the following error:

find: write error: Broken pipe

This error never occurs if I run the equivalent command directly from the shell.

I have already tried:

using other PHP execution functions: exec, system, popen;
passing the whole command as an argument to bash, i.e., exec('bash -c '.$cmd);

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on?

VonC · Accepted Answer · 2009-06-22 12:34:38Z

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It may depend on your exact platform, but findutils has been known to throw that kind of error message before.
On Fedora, that rpm package version 4.2.33-2.fc9 fixed the issue.

answered Jun 22, 2009 at 12:34

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D. Evans Over a year ago

Thanks, I'm using Ubuntu Hardy so the linked issue doesn't directly apply.

hegemon · Accepted Answer · 2009-06-23 11:57:48Z

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Does PHP throw any errors? Maybe max_execution_time is too low? Mu guess PHP app exites prematurely.

answered Jun 23, 2009 at 11:57

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D. Evans Over a year ago

No, PHP doesn't throw any errors and I can put code after the shell_exec call and it gets executed so I don't think it's timing out.

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