fix: improve EOFError exception when remote nvim crashes #589
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Problem: When the remote Nvim instance is aborted or terminates, the pynvim client will face an exception
OSError: EOF
. It is not very clear what is wrong and why EOF is received.Solution: This happens when the remote the nvim process terminates unexpectedly (or a tcp/file socket is broken or gets disconnected). We can provide a bit more detailed information about why the asyncio session is stopping, through asyncio Protocol. An
EOFError
will be raised instead of OSError.For example, during pynvim's unit tests we may see:
which means that the Nvim subprocess (pid = 40000) exited unexpectedly after getting SIGABRT (signal 6), i.e. assertion failure. Other error messages such as SIGSEGV (signal 11) or connection lost (through socket) are also possible.