Re: [PATCH/RFC v1 1/1] cygwin: Allow pushing to UNC paths

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tboegi@xxxxxx writes:

> From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx>
>
> cygwin can use an UNC path like //server/share/repo
> $ cd //server/share/dir
> $ mkdir test
> $ cd test
> $ git init --bare
>
> However, when we try to push from a local Git repository to this repo,
> there are 2 problems:
> - Git converts the leading "//" into a single "/".
> - The remote repo is not accepted because setup.c calls
>   access(getenv(DB_ENVIRONMENT), X_OK)
>   and this call fails. In other words, checking the executable bit
>   of a directory mounted on a SAMBA share is not reliable (and not needed).
>
> As cygwin handles an UNC path so well, Git can support them better.
> - Introduce cygwin_offset_1st_component() which keeps the leading "//",
>   similar to what Git for Windows does.
> - Move CYGWIN out of the POSIX in the tests for path normalization in t0060.
> - Use cygwin_access() with a relaxed test for the executable bit on
>   a directory pointed out by an UNC path.

Thanks.

The offset-1st-component thing looks like a right thing to do.

I think the reason why you marked this as RFC is because you found
the "access" bit a bit iffy?  If so, I share the feeling.  If it
were called only from the codepath in setup.c::is_git_directory(),
it may be OK, but I suspect that there are other places that do care
about access() for other reasons in the codebase, and I am not sure
if it is safe to change the behaviour of access() like this.

Stepping back a bit.

The implementation of is_git_directory() wants to ensure that the
top level of the object database (i.e.  $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY or
$GIT_DIR/objects) and the reference store (i.e. $GIT_DIR/refs) can
be "executed".  But what it really wants to see is that it is a
directory we can search.  If we had a regular file that is executable,
it would happily say "Yes!", even though that is clearly bogus and
not a Git repository.

So perhaps we would want a bit higher-level abstraction API
implemented as:

	int is_searchable_directory(const char *path)
	{
		struct stat st;

	        return (!stat(path, &st) && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode));
	}

on Cygwin (as SMB share may not give you correct access(2)), and

	int is_searchable_directory(const char *path)
	{
		struct stat st;

	        return (!stat(path, &st) && 
			S_ISDIR(st.st_mode) &&
			!access(path, X_OK));
	}

elsewhere, or something like that, and use that in the
implementation of is_git_directory()?

I dunno.  I see compat/mingw.c discards X_OK the same way you did,
so perhaps your version is a right solution at least in the shorter
term anyway.  

Regardless, I think that we would want to make sure that the thing
is a directory where is_git_directory() uses access(2).  But that
could be an orthogonal issue.

> Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  compat/cygwin.c       | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  compat/cygwin.h       |  7 +++++++
>  config.mak.uname      |  1 +
>  git-compat-util.h     |  3 +++
>  t/t0060-path-utils.sh |  2 ++
>  5 files changed, 42 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 compat/cygwin.c
>  create mode 100644 compat/cygwin.h
>
> diff --git a/compat/cygwin.c b/compat/cygwin.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..d98e877
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/compat/cygwin.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
> +#include "../git-compat-util.h"
> +#include "../cache.h"
> +
> +int cygwin_offset_1st_component(const char *path)
> +{
> +	const char *pos = path;
> +	/* unc paths */
> +	if (is_dir_sep(pos[0]) && is_dir_sep(pos[1])) {
> +		/* skip server name */
> +		pos = strchr(pos + 2, '/');
> +		if (!pos)
> +			return 0; /* Error: malformed unc path */
> +
> +		do {
> +			pos++;
> +		} while (*pos && pos[0] != '/');
> +	}
> +	return pos + is_dir_sep(*pos) - path;
> +}
> +
> +#undef access
> +int cygwin_access(const char *filename, int mode)
> +{
> +	/* the execute bit does not work on SAMBA drives */
> +	if (filename[0] == '/' && filename[1] == '/' )
> +		return access(filename, mode & ~X_OK);
> +	else
> +		return access(filename, mode);
> +}
> diff --git a/compat/cygwin.h b/compat/cygwin.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..efa12ad
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/compat/cygwin.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> +int cygwin_access(const char *filename, int mode);
> +#undef access
> +#define access cygwin_access
> +
> +
> +int cygwin_offset_1st_component(const char *path);
> +#define offset_1st_component cygwin_offset_1st_component
> diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname
> index adfb90b..551e465 100644
> --- a/config.mak.uname
> +++ b/config.mak.uname
> @@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_O),Cygwin)
>  	UNRELIABLE_FSTAT = UnfortunatelyYes
>  	SPARSE_FLAGS = -isystem /usr/include/w32api -Wno-one-bit-signed-bitfield
>  	OBJECT_CREATION_USES_RENAMES = UnfortunatelyNeedsTo
> +	COMPAT_OBJS += compat/cygwin.o
>  endif
>  ifeq ($(uname_S),FreeBSD)
>  	NEEDS_LIBICONV = YesPlease
> diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
> index 047172d..db9c22d 100644
> --- a/git-compat-util.h
> +++ b/git-compat-util.h
> @@ -189,6 +189,9 @@
>  #include <sys/sysctl.h>
>  #endif
>  
> +#if defined(__CYGWIN__)
> +#include "compat/cygwin.h"
> +#endif
>  #if defined(__MINGW32__)
>  /* pull in Windows compatibility stuff */
>  #include "compat/mingw.h"
> diff --git a/t/t0060-path-utils.sh b/t/t0060-path-utils.sh
> index 444b5a4..7ea2bb5 100755
> --- a/t/t0060-path-utils.sh
> +++ b/t/t0060-path-utils.sh
> @@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ ancestor() {
>  case $(uname -s) in
>  *MINGW*)
>  	;;
> +*CYGWIN*)
> +	;;
>  *)
>  	test_set_prereq POSIX
>  	;;



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