Merge branch 'js/mingw-inherit-only-std-handles'

Work around a issue where a FD that is left open when spawning a
child process and is kept open in the child can interfere with the
operation in the parent process on Windows.

* js/mingw-inherit-only-std-handles:
  mingw: forbid translating ERROR_SUCCESS to an errno value
  mingw: do set `errno` correctly when trying to restrict handle inheritance
  mingw: restrict file handle inheritance only on Windows 7 and later
  mingw: spawned processes need to inherit only standard handles
  mingw: work around incorrect standard handles
  mingw: demonstrate that all file handles are inherited by child processes

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.txt b/Documentation/config/core.txt
index 852d2ba37a..ad4fa4dccd 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/core.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/core.txt
@@ -559,6 +559,12 @@ core.unsetenvvars::
 	Defaults to `PERL5LIB` to account for the fact that Git for
 	Windows insists on using its own Perl interpreter.
 
+core.restrictinheritedhandles::
+	Windows-only: override whether spawned processes inherit only standard
+	file handles (`stdin`, `stdout` and `stderr`) or all handles. Can be
+	`auto`, `true` or `false`. Defaults to `auto`, which means `true` on
+	Windows 7 and later, and `false` on older Windows versions.
+
 core.createObject::
 	You can set this to 'link', in which case a hardlink followed by
 	a delete of the source are used to make sure that object creation