1 files changed, 31 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h
index 593bdbffe6..3ec9fc36a5 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.h
+++ b/compat/mingw.h
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ typedef _sigset_t sigset_t;
 #undef _POSIX_THREAD_SAFE_FUNCTIONS
 #endif
 
-extern int mingw_core_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb);
+int mingw_core_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb);
 #define platform_core_config mingw_core_config
 
 /*
@@ -352,11 +352,13 @@ static inline int getrlimit(int resource, struct rlimit *rlp)
 #ifndef __MINGW64_VERSION_MAJOR
 #define off_t off64_t
 #define lseek _lseeki64
+#ifndef _MSC_VER
 struct timespec {
 	time_t tv_sec;
 	long tv_nsec;
 };
 #endif
+#endif
 
 struct mingw_stat {
     _dev_t st_dev;
@@ -441,7 +443,7 @@ static inline void convert_slashes(char *path)
 			*path = '/';
 }
 #define PATH_SEP ';'
-extern char *mingw_query_user_email(void);
+char *mingw_query_user_email(void);
 #define query_user_email mingw_query_user_email
 #if !defined(__MINGW64_VERSION_MAJOR) && (!defined(_MSC_VER) || _MSC_VER < 1800)
 #define PRIuMAX "I64u"
@@ -451,6 +453,20 @@ extern char *mingw_query_user_email(void);
 #endif
 
 /**
+ * Verifies that the given path is a valid one on Windows.
+ *
+ * In particular, path segments are disallowed which
+ *
+ * - end in a period or a space (except the special directories `.` and `..`).
+ *
+ * - contain any of the reserved characters, e.g. `:`, `;`, `*`, etc
+ *
+ * Returns 1 upon success, otherwise 0.
+ */
+int is_valid_win32_path(const char *path);
+#define is_valid_path(path) is_valid_win32_path(path)
+
+/**
  * Converts UTF-8 encoded string to UTF-16LE.
  *
  * To support repositories with legacy-encoded file names, invalid UTF-8 bytes
@@ -556,26 +572,26 @@ int xwcstoutf(char *utf, const wchar_t *wcs, size_t utflen);
 
 /*
  * A critical section used in the implementation of the spawn
- * functions (mingw_spawnv[p]e()) and waitpid(). Intialised in
+ * functions (mingw_spawnv[p]e()) and waitpid(). Initialised in
  * the replacement main() macro below.
  */
 extern CRITICAL_SECTION pinfo_cs;
 
 /*
- * A replacement of main() that adds win32 specific initialization.
+ * Git, like most portable C applications, implements a main() function. On
+ * Windows, this main() function would receive parameters encoded in the
+ * current locale, but Git for Windows would prefer UTF-8 encoded  parameters.
+ *
+ * To make that happen, we still declare main() here, and then declare and
+ * implement wmain() (which is the Unicode variant of main()) and compile with
+ * -municode. This wmain() function reencodes the parameters from UTF-16 to
+ * UTF-8 format, sets up a couple of other things as required on Windows, and
+ * then hands off to the main() function.
  */
-
-void mingw_startup(void);
-#define main(c,v) dummy_decl_mingw_main(void); \
-static int mingw_main(c,v); \
-int main(int argc, const char **argv) \
-{ \
-	mingw_startup(); \
-	return mingw_main(__argc, (void *)__argv); \
-} \
-static int mingw_main(c,v)
+int wmain(int argc, const wchar_t **w_argv);
+int main(int argc, const char **argv);
 
 /*
  * Used by Pthread API implementation for Windows
  */
-extern int err_win_to_posix(DWORD winerr);
+int err_win_to_posix(DWORD winerr);