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mingw: add experimental feature to redirect standard handles

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Particularly when calling Git from applications, such as Visual Studio's
Team Explorer, it is important that stdin/stdout/stderr are closed
properly. However, when spawning processes on Windows, those handles
must be marked as inheritable if we want to use them, but that flag is a
global flag and may very well be used by other spawned processes which
then do not know to close those handles.

Let's introduce a set of environment variables (GIT_REDIRECT_STDIN and
friends) that specify paths to files, or even better, named pipes (which
are similar to Unix sockets) and that are used by the spawned Git
process.  This helps work around above-mentioned issue: those named
pipes will be opened in a non-inheritable way upon startup, and no
handles are passed around (and therefore no inherited handles need to be
closed by any spawned child).

This feature shipped with Git for Windows (marked as experimental) since
v2.11.0(2), so it has seen some serious testing in the meantime.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Johannes Schindelin 2017-11-01 18:10:25 +01:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent cb5918aa0d
commit 3f944424ac
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compat/mingw.c
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@ -2139,6 +2139,47 @@ static char *wcstoutfdup_startup(char *buffer, const wchar_t *wcs, size_t len)
return memcpy(malloc_startup(len), buffer, len);
}
static void maybe_redirect_std_handle(const wchar_t *key, DWORD std_id, int fd,
DWORD desired_access, DWORD flags)
{
DWORD create_flag = fd ? OPEN_ALWAYS : OPEN_EXISTING;
wchar_t buf[MAX_PATH];
DWORD max = ARRAY_SIZE(buf);
HANDLE handle;
DWORD ret = GetEnvironmentVariableW(key, buf, max);
if (!ret || ret >= max)
return;
/* make sure this does not leak into child processes */
SetEnvironmentVariableW(key, NULL);
if (!wcscmp(buf, L"off")) {
close(fd);
handle = GetStdHandle(std_id);
if (handle != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
CloseHandle(handle);
return;
}
handle = CreateFileW(buf, desired_access, 0, NULL, create_flag,
flags, NULL);
if (handle != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
int new_fd = _open_osfhandle((intptr_t)handle, O_BINARY);
SetStdHandle(std_id, handle);
dup2(new_fd, fd);
close(new_fd);
}
}
static void maybe_redirect_std_handles(void)
{
maybe_redirect_std_handle(L"GIT_REDIRECT_STDIN", STD_INPUT_HANDLE, 0,
GENERIC_READ, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL);
maybe_redirect_std_handle(L"GIT_REDIRECT_STDOUT", STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE, 1,
GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL);
maybe_redirect_std_handle(L"GIT_REDIRECT_STDERR", STD_ERROR_HANDLE, 2,
GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING);
}
void mingw_startup(void)
{
int i, maxlen, argc;
@ -2146,6 +2187,8 @@ void mingw_startup(void)
wchar_t **wenv, **wargv;
_startupinfo si;
maybe_redirect_std_handles();
/* get wide char arguments and environment */
si.newmode = 0;
if (__wgetmainargs(&argc, &wargv, &wenv, _CRT_glob, &si) < 0)

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t/t0001-init.sh
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@ -453,4 +453,10 @@ test_expect_success 're-init from a linked worktree' '
)
'
test_expect_success MINGW 'redirect std handles' '
GIT_REDIRECT_STDOUT=output.txt git rev-parse --git-dir &&
test .git = "$(cat output.txt)" &&
test -z "$(GIT_REDIRECT_STDOUT=off git rev-parse --git-dir)"
'
test_done