These functions transform an existing argv into one suitable
for exec-ing or spawning via git or a shell. We can use an
argv_array in each to avoid dealing with manual counting and
allocation.
This also makes the memory allocation more clear and fixes
some leaks. In prepare_shell_cmd, we would sometimes
allocate a new string with "$@" in it and sometimes not,
meaning the caller could not correctly free it. On the
non-Windows side, we are in a child process which will
exec() or exit() immediately, so the leak isn't a big deal.
On Windows, though, we use spawn() from the parent process,
and leak a string for each shell command we run. On top of
that, the Windows code did not free the allocated argv array
at all (but does for the prepare_git_cmd case!).
By switching both of these functions to write into an
argv_array, we can consistently free the result as
appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function sometimes returns a newly allocated string and
sometimes returns a borrowed string, the latter of which the callers
must not free(). The existing callers all assume that the return
value belongs to the callee and most of them copy it with strdup()
when they want to keep it around. They end up leaking the returned
copy when the callee returned a new string because they cannot tell
if they should free it.
Change the contract between the callers and system_path() to make
the returned string owned by the callers; they are responsible for
freeing it when done, but they do not have to make their own copy to
store it away.
Adjust the callers to make sure they do not leak the returned string
once they are done, but do not bother freeing it just before dying,
exiting or exec'ing other program to avoid unnecessary churn.
Reported-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sentinel function attribute is not understood by versions of
the gcc compiler prior to v4.0. At present, for earlier versions
of gcc, the build issues 108 warnings related to the unknown
attribute. In order to suppress the warnings, we conditionally
define the LAST_ARG_MUST_BE_NULL macro to provide the sentinel attribute
for gcc v4.0 and newer.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This attribute can help gcc notice when callers forget to
add a NULL sentinel to the end of the function. This is our
first use of the sentinel attribute, but we shouldn't need
to #ifdef for other compilers, as __attribute__ is already a
no-op on non-gcc-compatible compilers.
Suggested-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
More-Spots-Found-By: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit moves the code that computes the dirname of argv[0]
from git.c's main() to git_set_argv0_path() and renames the function
to git_extract_argv0_path(). This makes the code in git.c's main
less cluttered, and we can use the dirname computation from other
main() functions too.
[ spr:
- split Steve's original commit and wrote new commit message.
- Integrated Johannes Schindelin's
cca1704897 while rebasing onto master.
]
Signed-off-by: Steve Haslam <shaslam@lastminute.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
prepare_git_cmd(const char **argv) adds a first entry "git" to
the array argv. The new array is allocated on the heap. It's
the caller's responsibility to release it with free(). The code
was already present in execv_git_cmd() but could not be used from
outside. Now it can also be called for preparing the command list
in the MinGW codepath in run-command.c.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We will need the command invocation path in system_path(). This path was
passed to setup_path(), but system_path() can be called earlier, for
example via:
main
commit_pager_choice
setup_pager
git_config
git_etc_gitconfig
system_path
Therefore, we introduce git_set_argv0_path() and call it as soon as
possible.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Expanding system paths relative to git_exec_path can be used for
creating an installation that can be moved to a different directory
without re-compiling. We use this approach for template_dir and the
system wide gitconfig. The Windows installer (msysgit) is an example
for such a setup.
This commit moves common code to a new function system_path(). System
paths that are to be interpreted relative to git_exec_path are passed to
system_path() and the return value is used instead of the original path.
system_path() prefixes a relative path with git_exec_path and leaves
absolute paths unmodified. For example, we now write
template_dir = system_path(DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR);
[j6t: moved from path.c to exec_cmd.c]
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We need to correctly set up $PATH for non-c based git commands.
Since we already do this, we can just use that $PATH and execvp,
instead of looping over the paths with execve.
This patch adds a setup_path() function to exec_cmd.c, which sets
the $PATH order correctly for our search order. execv_git_cmd() is
stripped down to setting up argv and calling execvp(). git.c's
main() only only needs to call setup_path().
Signed-off-by: Scott R Parish <srp@srparish.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark Wooding noticed there was a type mismatch warning in git.c; this
patch does things slightly differently (mostly tightening const) and
was what I was holding onto, waiting for the setup-revisions change
to be merged into the master branch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The git suite may not be in PATH (and thus programs such as
git-send-pack could not exec git-rev-list). Thus there is a need for
logic that will locate these programs. Modifying PATH is not
desirable as it result in behavior differing from the user's
intentions, as we may end up prepending "/usr/bin" to PATH.
- git C programs will use exec*_git_cmd() APIs to exec sub-commands.
- exec*_git_cmd() will execute a git program by searching for it in
the following directories:
1. --exec-path (as used by "git")
2. The GIT_EXEC_PATH environment variable.
3. $(gitexecdir) as set in Makefile (default value $(bindir)).
- git wrapper will modify PATH as before to enable shell scripts to
invoke "git-foo" commands.
Ideally, shell scripts should use the git wrapper to become independent
of PATH, and then modifying PATH will not be necessary.
[jc: with minor updates after a brief review.]
Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
