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2020-05-13Merge branch 'jc/auto-gc-quiet'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
Teach "am", "commit", "merge" and "rebase", when they are run with the "--quiet" option, to pass "--quiet" down to "gc --auto". * jc/auto-gc-quiet: auto-gc: pass --quiet down from am, commit, merge and rebase auto-gc: extract a reusable helper from "git fetch"
2020-05-07auto-gc: extract a reusable helper from "git fetch"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
Back in 1991006c (fetch: convert argv_gc_auto to struct argv_array, 2014-08-16), we taught "git fetch --quiet" to pass the "--quiet" option down to "gc --auto". This issue, however, is not limited to "fetch": $ git grep -e 'gc.*--auto' \*.c finds hits in "am", "commit", "merge", and "rebase" and these commands do not pass "--quiet" down to "gc --auto" when they themselves are told to be quiet. As a preparatory step, let's introduce a helper function run_auto_gc(), that the caller can pass a boolean "quiet", and redo the fix to "git fetch" using the helper. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-27run-command: trigger PATH lookup properly on CygwinLibravatar Andras Kucsma1-5/+5
On Cygwin, the codepath for POSIX-like systems is taken in run-command.c::start_command(). The prepare_cmd() helper function is called to decide if the command needs to be looked up in the PATH. The logic there is to do the PATH-lookup if and only if it does not have any slash '/' in it. If this test passes we end up attempting to run the command by appending the string after each colon-separated component of PATH. The Cygwin environment supports both Windows and POSIX style paths, so both forwardslahes '/' and back slashes '\' can be used as directory separators for any external program the user supplies. Examples for path strings which are being incorrectly searched for in the PATH instead of being executed as is: - "C:\Program Files\some-program.exe" - "a\b\c.exe" To handle these, the PATH lookup detection logic in prepare_cmd() is taught to know about this Cygwin quirk, by introducing has_dir_sep(path) helper function to abstract away the difference between true POSIX and Cygwin systems. Signed-off-by: Andras Kucsma <r0maikx02b@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-22Merge branch 'bc/run-command-nullness-after-free-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
C pedantry ;-) fix. * bc/run-command-nullness-after-free-fix: run-command: avoid undefined behavior in exists_in_PATH
2020-01-07run-command: avoid undefined behavior in exists_in_PATHLibravatar brian m. carlson1-1/+2
In this function, we free the pointer we get from locate_in_PATH and then check whether it's NULL. However, this is undefined behavior if the pointer is non-NULL, since the C standard no longer permits us to use a valid pointer after freeing it. The only case in which the C standard would permit this to be defined behavior is if r were NULL, since it states that in such a case "no action occurs" as a result of calling free. It's easy to suggest that this is not likely to be a problem, but we know that GCC does aggressively exploit the fact that undefined behavior can never occur to optimize and rewrite code, even when that's contrary to the expectations of the programmer. It is, in fact, very common for it to omit NULL pointer checks, just as we have here. Since it's easy to fix, let's do so, and avoid a potential headache in the future. Noticed-by: Miriam R. <mirucam@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-27run-command: use prepare_git_cmd() in prepare_cmd()Libravatar René Scharfe1-2/+1
Call prepare_git_cmd() instead of open-coding it. Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-02-22trace2: create new combined trace facilityLibravatar Jeff Hostetler1-1/+58
Create a new unified tracing facility for git. The eventual intent is to replace the current trace_printf* and trace_performance* routines with a unified set of git_trace2* routines. In addition to the usual printf-style API, trace2 provides higer-level event verbs with fixed-fields allowing structured data to be written. This makes post-processing and analysis easier for external tools. Trace2 defines 3 output targets. These are set using the environment variables "GIT_TR2", "GIT_TR2_PERF", and "GIT_TR2_EVENT". These may be set to "1" or to an absolute pathname (just like the current GIT_TRACE). * GIT_TR2 is intended to be a replacement for GIT_TRACE and logs command summary data. * GIT_TR2_PERF is intended as a replacement for GIT_TRACE_PERFORMANCE. It extends the output with columns for the command process, thread, repo, absolute and relative elapsed times. It reports events for child process start/stop, thread start/stop, and per-thread function nesting. * GIT_TR2_EVENT is a new structured format. It writes event data as a series of JSON records. Calls to trace2 functions log to any of the 3 output targets enabled without the need to call different trace_printf* or trace_performance* routines. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-15Merge branch 'jc/run-command-report-exec-failure-fix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
A recent update accidentally squelched an error message when the run_command API failed to run a missing command, which has been corrected. * jc/run-command-report-exec-failure-fix: run-command: report exec failure
2018-12-12run-command: report exec failureLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
In 321fd823 ("run-command: mark path lookup errors with ENOENT", 2018-10-24), we rewrote the logic to execute a command by looking in the directories on $PATH; as a side effect, a request to run a command that is not found on $PATH is noticed even before a child process is forked to execute it. We however stopped to report an exec failure in such a case by mistake. Add a logic to report the error unless silent-exec-failure is requested, to match the original code. Reported-by: John Passaro <john.a.passaro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-18Merge branch 'nd/pthreads'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+10
The codebase has been cleaned up to reduce "#ifndef NO_PTHREADS". * nd/pthreads: Clean up pthread_create() error handling read-cache.c: initialize copy_len to shut up gcc 8 read-cache.c: reduce branching based on HAVE_THREADS read-cache.c: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS pack-objects: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS preload-index.c: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS grep: clean up num_threads handling grep: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS attr.c: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS name-hash.c: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS index-pack: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS send-pack.c: move async's #ifdef NO_PTHREADS back to run-command.c run-command.h: include thread-utils.h instead of pthread.h thread-utils: macros to unconditionally compile pthreads API
2018-11-05Clean up pthread_create() error handlingLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
Normally pthread_create() rarely fails. But with new pthreads wrapper, pthread_create() will return ENOSYS on a system without thread support. Threaded code _is_ protected by HAVE_THREADS and pthread_create() should never run in the first place. But the situation could change in the future and bugs may sneak in. Make sure that all pthread_create() reports the error cause. While at there, mark these strings for translation if they aren't. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-05send-pack.c: move async's #ifdef NO_PTHREADS back to run-command.cLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+9
On systems that do not support multithread, start_async() is implemented with fork(). This implementation details unfortunately leak out at least in send-pack.c [1]. To keep the code base clean of NO_PTHREADS, move the this #ifdef back to run-command.c. The new wrapper function async_with_fork() at least helps suggest that this special "close()" is related to async in fork mode. [1] 09c9957cf7 (send-pack: avoid deadlock when pack-object dies early - 2011-04-25) Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-25t0061: adjust to test-tool transitionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+17
2018-10-25run-command: mark path lookup errors with ENOENTLibravatar Jeff King1-4/+17
Since commit e3a434468f (run-command: use the async-signal-safe execv instead of execvp, 2017-04-19), prepare_cmd() does its own PATH lookup for any commands we run (on non-Windows platforms). However, its logic does not match the old execvp call when we fail to find a matching entry in the PATH. Instead of feeding the name directly to execv, execvp would consider that an ENOENT error. By continuing and passing the name directly to execv, we effectively behave as if "." was included at the end of the PATH. This can have confusing and even dangerous results. The fix itself is pretty straight-forward. There's a new test in t0061 to cover this explicitly, and I've also added a duplicate of the ENOENT test to ensure that we return the correct errno for this case. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-06Replace all die("BUG: ...") calls by BUG() onesLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-5/+5
In d8193743e08 (usage.c: add BUG() function, 2017-05-12), a new macro was introduced to use for reporting bugs instead of die(). It was then subsequently used to convert one single caller in 588a538ae55 (setup_git_env: convert die("BUG") to BUG(), 2017-05-12). The cover letter of the patch series containing this patch (cf 20170513032414.mfrwabt4hovujde2@sigill.intra.peff.net) is not terribly clear why only one call site was converted, or what the plan is for other, similar calls to die() to report bugs. Let's just convert all remaining ones in one fell swoop. This trick was performed by this invocation: sed -i 's/die("BUG: /BUG("/g' $(git grep -l 'die("BUG' \*.c) Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-06run-command: use BUG() to report bugs, not die()Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-13/+10
The slightly misleading name die_bug() of the function intended to report a bug is actually called always, and only reports a bug if the passed-in parameter `err` is non-zero. It uses die_errno() to report the bug, to helpfully include the error message corresponding to `err`. However, as these messages indicate bugs, we really should use BUG(). And as BUG() is a macro to be able to report the exact file and line number, we need to convert die_bug() to a macro instead of only replacing the die_errno() by a call to BUG(). While at it, use a name more indicative of the purpose: CHECK_BUG(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-11exec_cmd: rename to use dash in file nameLibravatar Stefan Beller1-1/+1
This is more consistent with the project style. The majority of Git's source files use dashes in preference to underscores in their file names. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
2018-03-25run-command: use strbuf_addstr() for adding a string to a strbufLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+1
Patch generated with Coccinelle and contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-19run-command.c: print new cwd in trace_run_command()Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+5
If a command sets a new env variable GIT_DIR=.git, we need more context to know where that '.git' is related to. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-19run-command.c: print env vars in trace_run_command()Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+63
Occasionally submodule code could execute new commands with GIT_DIR set to some submodule. GIT_TRACE prints just the command line which makes it hard to tell that it's not really executed on this repository. Print the env delta (compared to parent environment) in this case. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-19run-command.c: print program 'git' when tracing git_cmd modeLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+2
We normally print full command line, including the program and its argument. When git_cmd is set, we have a special code path to run the right "git" program and child_process.argv[0] will not contain the program name anymore. As a result, we print just the command arguments. I thought it was a regression when the code was refactored and git_cmd added, but apparently it's not. git_cmd mode was introduced before tracing was added in 8852f5d704 (run_command(): respect GIT_TRACE - 2008-07-07) so it's more like an oversight in 8852f5d704. Fix it, print the program name "git" in git_cmd mode. It's nice to have now. But it will be more important later when we start to print env variables too, in shell syntax. The lack of a program name would look confusing then. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-19run-command.c: introduce trace_run_command()Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+17
This is the same as the old code that uses trace_argv_printf() in run-command.c. This function will be improved in later patches to print more information from struct child_process. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-10run-command: add hint when a hook is ignoredLibravatar Damien Marié1-0/+18
When an hook is present but the file is not set as executable then git will ignore the hook. For now this is silent which can be confusing. This commit adds this warning to improve the situation: hint: The 'pre-commit' hook was ignored because it's not set as executable. hint: You can disable this warning with `git config advice.ignoredHook false` To allow the old use-case of enabling/disabling hooks via the executable flag a new setting is introduced: advice.ignoredHook. Signed-off-by: Damien Marié <damien@dam.io> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-03run-command: use ALLOC_ARRAYLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+1
Use the macro ALLOC_ARRAY to allocate an array. This is shorter and easier, as it automatically infers the size of elements. Patch generated with Coccinelle and contrib/coccinelle/array.cocci. Signeg-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-23Merge branch 'js/run-process-parallel-api-fix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
API fix. * js/run-process-parallel-api-fix: run_processes_parallel: change confusing task_cb convention
2017-07-21run_processes_parallel: change confusing task_cb conventionLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-2/+2
By declaring the task_cb parameter of type `void **`, the signature of the get_next_task method suggests that the "task-specific cookie" can be defined in that method, and the signatures of the start_failure and of the task_finished methods declare that parameter of type `void *`, suggesting that those methods are mere users of said cookie. That convention makes a total lot of sense, because the tasks are pretty much dead when one of the latter two methods is called: there would be little use to reset that cookie at that point because nobody would be able to see the change afterwards. However, this is not what the code actually does. For all three methods, it passes the *address* of pp->children[i].data. As reasoned above, this behavior makes no sense. So let's change the implementation to adhere to the convention suggested by the signatures. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Acked-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-25run-command: restrict PATH search to executable filesLibravatar Brandon Williams1-1/+18
In some situations run-command will incorrectly try (and fail) to execute a directory instead of an executable file. This was observed by having a directory called "ssh" in $PATH before the real ssh and trying to use ssh protoccol, reslting in the following: $ git ls-remote ssh://url fatal: cannot exec 'ssh': Permission denied It ends up being worse and run-command will even try to execute a non-executable file if it preceeds the executable version of a file on the PATH. For example, if PATH=~/bin1:~/bin2:~/bin3 and there exists a directory 'git-hello' in 'bin1', a non-executable file 'git-hello' in bin2 and an executable file 'git-hello' (which prints "Hello World!") in bin3 the following will occur: $ git hello fatal: cannot exec 'git-hello': Permission denied This is due to only checking 'access()' when locating an executable in PATH, which doesn't distinguish between files and directories. Instead use 'is_executable()' which check that the path is to a regular, executable file. Now run-command won't try to execute the directory or non-executable file 'git-hello': $ git hello Hello World! which matches what execvp(3) would have done when asked to execute git-hello with such a $PATH. Reported-by: Brian Hatfield <bhatfield@google.com> Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-25run-command: expose is_executable functionLibravatar Brandon Williams1-0/+42
Move the logic for 'is_executable()' from help.c to run_command.c and expose it so that callers from outside help.c can access the function. This is to enable run-command to be able to query if a file is executable in a future patch. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-20run-command: block signals between fork and execveLibravatar Eric Wong1-0/+68
Signal handlers of the parent firing in the forked child may have unintended side effects. Rather than auditing every signal handler we have and will ever have, block signals while forking and restore default signal handlers in the child before execve. Restoring default signal handlers is required because execve does not unblock signals, it only restores default signal handlers. So we must restore them with sigprocmask before execve, leaving a window when signal handlers we control can fire in the child. Continue ignoring ignored signals, but reset the rest to defaults. Similarly, disable pthread cancellation to future-proof our code in case we start using cancellation; as cancellation is implemented with signals in glibc. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-20run-command: add note about forking and threadingLibravatar Brandon Williams1-0/+9
All non-Async-Signal-Safe functions (e.g. malloc and die) were removed between 'fork' and 'exec' in start_command in order to avoid potential deadlocking when forking while multiple threads are running. This deadlocking is possible when a thread (other than the one forking) has acquired a lock and didn't get around to releasing it before the fork. This leaves the lock in a locked state in the resulting process with no hope of it ever being released. Add a note describing this potential pitfall before the call to 'fork()' so people working in this section of the code know to only use Async-Signal-Safe functions in the child process. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-20run-command: handle dup2 and close errors in childLibravatar Brandon Williams1-16/+42
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-20run-command: eliminate calls to error handling functions in childLibravatar Brandon Williams1-32/+89
All of our standard error handling paths have the potential to call malloc or take stdio locks; so we must avoid them inside the forked child. Instead, the child only writes an 8 byte struct atomically to the parent through the notification pipe to propagate an error. All user-visible error reporting happens from the parent; even avoiding functions like atexit(3) and exit(3). Helped-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-20run-command: don't die in child when duping /dev/nullLibravatar Brandon Williams1-15/+13
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-20run-command: prepare child environment before forkingLibravatar Brandon Williams1-10/+56
In order to avoid allocation between 'fork()' and 'exec()' prepare the environment to be used in the child process prior to forking. Switch to using 'execve()' so that the construct child environment can used in the exec'd process. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-20run-command: use the async-signal-safe execv instead of execvpLibravatar Brandon Williams1-1/+29
Convert the function used to exec from 'execvp()' to 'execv()' as the (p) variant of exec isn't async-signal-safe and has the potential to call malloc during the path resolution it performs. Instead we simply do the path resolution ourselves during the preparation stage prior to forking. There also don't exist any portable (p) variants which also take in an environment to use in the exec'd process. This allows easy migration to using 'execve()' in a future patch. Also, as noted in [1], in the event of an ENOEXEC the (p) variants of exec will attempt to execute the command by interpreting it with the 'sh' utility. To maintain this functionality, if 'execv()' fails with ENOEXEC, start_command will atempt to execute the command by interpreting it with 'sh'. [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/exec.html Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-20run-command: prepare command before forkingLibravatar Brandon Williams1-20/+26
According to [1] we need to only call async-signal-safe operations between fork and exec. Using malloc to build the argv array isn't async-signal-safe. In order to avoid allocation between 'fork()' and 'exec()' prepare the argv array used in the exec call prior to forking the process. [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fork.html Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-24Merge branch 'jk/execv-dashed-external'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Fix for NO_PTHREADS build. * jk/execv-dashed-external: run-command: fix segfault when cleaning forked async process
2017-03-18run-command: fix segfault when cleaning forked async processLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
Callers of the run-command API may mark a child as "clean_on_exit"; it gets added to a list and killed when the main process dies. Since commit 46df6906f (execv_dashed_external: wait for child on signal death, 2017-01-06), we respect an extra "wait_after_clean" flag, which we expect to find in the child_process struct. When Git is built with NO_PTHREADS, we start "struct async" processes by forking rather than spawning a thread. The resulting processes get added to the cleanup list but they don't have a child_process struct, and the cleanup function ends up dereferencing NULL. We should notice this case and assume that the processes do not need to be waited for (i.e., the same behavior they had before 46df6906f). Reported-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-02Merge branch 'js/mingw-hooks-with-exe-suffix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+7
Names of the various hook scripts must be spelled exactly, but on Windows, an .exe binary must be named with .exe suffix; notice $GIT_DIR/hooks/<hookname>.exe as a valid <hookname> hook. * js/mingw-hooks-with-exe-suffix: mingw: allow hooks to be .exe files
2017-01-30mingw: allow hooks to be .exe filesLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+7
Executable files in Windows need to have the extension '.exe', otherwise they do not work. Extend the hooks to not just look at the hard coded names, but also at the names extended by the custom STRIP_EXTENSION, which is defined as '.exe' in Windows. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-01-09execv_dashed_external: wait for child on signal deathLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+19
When you hit ^C to interrupt a git command going to a pager, this usually leaves the pager running. But when a dashed external is in use, the pager ends up in a funny state and quits (but only after eating one more character from the terminal!). This fixes it. Explaining the reason will require a little background. When git runs a pager, it's important for the git process to hang around and wait for the pager to finish, even though it has no more data to feed it. This is because git spawns the pager as a child, and thus the git process is the session leader on the terminal. After it dies, the pager will finish its current read from the terminal (eating the one character), and then get EIO trying to read again. When you hit ^C, that sends SIGINT to git and to the pager, and it's a similar situation. The pager ignores it, but the git process needs to hang around until the pager is done. We addressed that long ago in a3da882120 (pager: do wait_for_pager on signal death, 2009-01-22). But when you have a dashed external (or an alias pointing to a builtin, which will re-exec git for the builtin), there's an extra process in the mix. For instance, running: $ git -c alias.l=log l will end up with a process tree like: git (parent) \ git-log (child) \ less (pager) If you hit ^C, SIGINT goes to all of them. The pager ignores it, and the child git process will end up in wait_for_pager(). But the parent git process will die, and the usual EIO trouble happens. So we really want the parent git process to wait_for_pager(), but of course it doesn't know anything about the pager at all, since it was started by the child. However, we can have it wait on the git-log child, which in turn is waiting on the pager. And that's what this patch does. There are a few design decisions here worth explaining: 1. The new feature is attached to run-command's clean_on_exit feature. Partly this is convenience, since that feature already has a signal handler that deals with child cleanup. But it's also a meaningful connection. The main reason that dashed externals use clean_on_exit is to bind the two processes together. If somebody kills the parent with a signal, we propagate that to the child (in this instance with SIGINT, we do propagate but it doesn't matter because the original signal went to the whole process group). Likewise, we do not want the parent to go away until the child has done so. In a traditional Unix world, we'd probably accomplish this binding by just having the parent execve() the child directly. But since that doesn't work on Windows, everything goes through run_command's more spawn-like interface. 2. We do _not_ automatically waitpid() on any clean_on_exit children. For dashed externals this makes sense; we know that the parent is doing nothing but waiting for the child to exit anyway. But with other children, it's possible that the child, after getting the signal, could be waiting on the parent to do something (like closing a descriptor). If we were to wait on such a child, we'd end up in a deadlock. So this errs on the side of caution, and lets callers enable the feature explicitly. 3. When we send children the cleanup signal, we send all the signals first, before waiting on any children. This is to avoid the case where one child might be waiting on another one to exit, causing a deadlock. We inform all of them that it's time to die before reaping any. In practice, there is only ever one dashed external run from a given process, so this doesn't matter much now. But it future-proofs us if other callers start using the wait_after_clean mechanism. There's no automated test here, because it would end up racy and unportable. But it's easy to reproduce the situation by running the log command given above and hitting ^C. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-17run-command: add clean_on_exit_handlerLibravatar Lars Schneider1-4/+18
Some processes might want to perform cleanup tasks before Git kills them due to the 'clean_on_exit' flag. Let's give them an interface for doing this. The feature is used in a subsequent patch. Please note, that the cleanup callback is not executed if Git dies of a signal. The reason is that only "async-signal-safe" functions would be allowed to be call in that case. Since we cannot control what functions the callback will use, we will not support the case. See 507d7804 for more details. Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-17run-command: move check_pipe() from write_or_die to run_commandLibravatar Lars Schneider1-2/+15
Move check_pipe() to run_command and make it public. This is necessary to call the function from pkt-line in a subsequent patch. While at it, make async_exit() static to run_command.c as it is no longer used from outside. Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-19Merge branch 'ab/hooks'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+1
"git rev-parse --git-path hooks/<hook>" learned to take core.hooksPath configuration variable (introduced during 2.9 cycle) into account. * ab/hooks: rev-parse: respect core.hooksPath in --git-path
2016-08-16rev-parse: respect core.hooksPath in --git-pathLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-4/+1
The idea of the --git-path option is not only to avoid having to prefix paths with the output of --git-dir all the time, but also to respect overrides for specific common paths inside the .git directory (e.g. `git rev-parse --git-path objects` will report the value of the environment variable GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, if set). When introducing the core.hooksPath setting, we forgot to adjust git_path() accordingly. This patch fixes that. While at it, revert the special-casing of core.hooksPath in run-command.c, as it is now no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-17run-command: add pipe_command helperLibravatar Jeff King1-5/+147
We already have capture_command(), which captures the stdout of a command in a way that avoids deadlocks. But sometimes we need to do more I/O, like capturing stderr as well, or sending data to stdin. It's easy to write code that deadlocks racily in these situations depending on how fast the command reads its input, or in which order it writes its output. Let's give callers an easy interface for doing this the right way, similar to what capture_command() did for the simple case. The whole thing is backed by a generic poll() loop that can feed an arbitrary number of buffers to descriptors, and fill an arbitrary number of strbufs from other descriptors. This seems like overkill, but the resulting code is actually a bit cleaner than just handling the three descriptors (because the output code for stdout/stderr is effectively duplicated, so being able to loop is a benefit). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-17Merge branch 'nd/error-errno'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+7
The code for warning_errno/die_errno has been refactored and a new error_errno() reporting helper is introduced. * nd/error-errno: (41 commits) wrapper.c: use warning_errno() vcs-svn: use error_errno() upload-pack.c: use error_errno() unpack-trees.c: use error_errno() transport-helper.c: use error_errno() sha1_file.c: use {error,die,warning}_errno() server-info.c: use error_errno() sequencer.c: use error_errno() run-command.c: use error_errno() rerere.c: use error_errno() and warning_errno() reachable.c: use error_errno() mailmap.c: use error_errno() ident.c: use warning_errno() http.c: use error_errno() and warning_errno() grep.c: use error_errno() gpg-interface.c: use error_errno() fast-import.c: use error_errno() entry.c: use error_errno() editor.c: use error_errno() diff-no-index.c: use error_errno() ...
2016-05-17Merge branch 'ab/hooks'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
A new configuration variable core.hooksPath allows customizing where the hook directory is. * ab/hooks: hooks: allow customizing where the hook directory is githooks.txt: minor improvements to the grammar & phrasing githooks.txt: amend dangerous advice about 'update' hook ACL githooks.txt: improve the intro section
2016-05-09run-command.c: use error_errno()Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-8/+7
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-04hooks: allow customizing where the hook directory isLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-1/+4
Change the hardcoded lookup for .git/hooks/* to optionally lookup in $(git config core.hooksPath)/* instead. This is essentially a more intrusive version of the git-init ability to specify hooks on init time via init templates. The difference between that facility and this feature is that this can be set up after the fact via e.g. ~/.gitconfig or /etc/gitconfig to apply for all your personal repositories, or all repositories on the system. I plan on using this on a centralized Git server where users can create arbitrary repositories under /gitroot, but I'd like to manage all the hooks that should be run centrally via a unified dispatch mechanism. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>