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author | Kim Gybels <kgybels@infogroep.be> | 2019-01-11 21:26:08 +0100 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-01-11 18:32:38 -0800 |
commit | 6776a84dae701723721e2ff050acc57d63eeb59c (patch) | |
tree | d95995c316bdd28df7898a169722d5411cf9effe /Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.11.txt | |
parent | Git 2.20.1 (diff) | |
download | tgif-6776a84dae701723721e2ff050acc57d63eeb59c.tar.xz |
diff: ensure correct lifetime of external_diff_cmd
According to getenv(3)'s notes:
The implementation of getenv() is not required to be reentrant. The
string pointed to by the return value of getenv() may be statically
allocated, and can be modified by a subsequent call to getenv(),
putenv(3), setenv(3), or unsetenv(3).
Since strings returned by getenv() are allowed to change on subsequent
calls to getenv(), make sure to duplicate when caching external_diff_cmd
from environment.
This problem becomes apparent on Git for Windows since fe21c6b285df
(mingw: reencode environment variables on the fly (UTF-16 <-> UTF-8)),
when the getenv() implementation provided in compat/mingw.c was changed
to keep a certain amount of alloc'ed strings and freeing them on
subsequent calls.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2007:
$ yes n | git -c difftool.prompt=yes difftool fe21c6b285df fe21c6b285df~100
Viewing (1/404): '.gitignore'
Launch 'bc3' [Y/n]?
Viewing (2/404): 'Documentation/.gitignore'
Launch 'bc3' [Y/n]?
Viewing (3/404): 'Documentation/Makefile'
Launch 'bc3' [Y/n]?
Viewing (4/404): 'Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.5.txt'
Launch 'bc3' [Y/n]?
Viewing (5/404): 'Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.3.txt'
Launch 'bc3' [Y/n]?
Viewing (6/404): 'Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.5.txt'
Launch 'bc3' [Y/n]?
Viewing (7/404): 'Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.2.txt'
Launch 'bc3' [Y/n]?
Viewing (8/404): 'Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.1.txt'
Launch 'bc3' [Y/n]?
Viewing (9/404): 'Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt'
Launch 'bc3' [Y/n]? error: cannot spawn ¦?: No such file or directory
fatal: external diff died, stopping at Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.1.txt
Signed-off-by: Kim Gybels <kgybels@infogroep.be>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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