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| author |  Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> | 2019-11-22 14:41:05 +0000 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-11-23 11:17:01 +0900 |
| commit | ac33519ddfa818f420b4ef5a09b4a7b3ac8adeb8 (patch) | |
| tree | 3be69cd77e59cc611b37cfbbf9a145e268445376 /Documentation | |
| parent | mingw: spawned processes need to inherit only standard handles (diff) | |
| download | tgif-ac33519ddfa818f420b4ef5a09b4a7b3ac8adeb8.tar.xz | |
mingw: restrict file handle inheritance only on Windows 7 and later
Turns out that it don't work so well on Vista, see
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1742 for details.
According to https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=8873, it
*should* work on Windows Vista and later.
But apparently there are issues on Windows Vista when pipes are
involved. Given that Windows Vista is past its end of life (official
support ended on April 11th, 2017), let's not spend *too* much time on
this issue and just disable the file handle inheritance restriction on
any Windows version earlier than Windows 7.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/core.txt | 6 |
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 |