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authorLibravatar Kim Gybels <kgybels@infogroep.be>2019-01-11 21:26:08 +0100
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-01-11 18:32:38 -0800
commit6776a84dae701723721e2ff050acc57d63eeb59c (patch)
treed95995c316bdd28df7898a169722d5411cf9effe /exec-cmd.c
parentGit 2.20.1 (diff)
downloadtgif-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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