Am 29.11.19 um 22:44 schrieb Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget: > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > In 9a780a384de (mingw: spawned processes need to inherit only standard > handles, 2019-11-22), we taught the Windows-specific part to restrict > which file handles are passed on to the spawned processes. > > Since this logic seemed to be a bit fragile across Windows versions (we > _still_ support Windows Vista in Git for Windows, for example), a > fall-back was added to try spawning the process again, this time without > restricting which file handles are to be inherited by the spawned > process. > > In the common case (i.e. when the process could not be spawned for > reasons _other_ than the file handle inheritance), the fall-back attempt > would still fail, of course. > > Crucially, one thing we missed in that code path was to set `errno` > appropriately. > > This should have been caught by t0061.2 which expected `errno` to be > `ENOENT` after trying to start a process for a non-existing executable, > but `errno` was set to `ENOENT` prior to the `CreateProcessW()` call: > while looking for the config settings for trace2, Git tries to access > `xdg_config` and `user_config` via `access_or_die()`, and as neither of > those config files exists when running the test case (because in Git's > test suite, `HOME` points to the test directory), the `errno` has the > expected value, but for the wrong reasons. > > Let's fix that by making sure that `errno` is set correctly. > > It would be nice if we could somehow fix t0061 to make sure that this > does not regress again. One approach that seemed like it should work, > but did not, was to set `errno` to 0 in the test helper that is used by > t0061.2. > > However, when `mingw_spawnvpe()` wants to see whether the file in > question is a script, it calls `parse_interpreter()`, which in turn > tries to `open()` the file.0/compat/mingw.c#L1134. Obviously, Copy-and-paste garbage? > this call fails, and sets `errno` to `ENOENT`, deep inside the call > chain started from that test helper. > > Instead, we force re-set `errno` at the beginning of the function > `mingw_spawnve_fd()`, which _should_ be safe given that callers of that > function will want to look at `errno` if -1 was returned. And if that > `errno` is 0 ("No error"), regression tests like t0061.2 will kick in. > > Reported-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > --- > compat/mingw.c | 5 ++++- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c > index 2b6eca2f56..bb4eb4211a 100644 > --- a/compat/mingw.c > +++ b/compat/mingw.c > @@ -1423,6 +1423,9 @@ static pid_t mingw_spawnve_fd(const char *cmd, const char **argv, char **deltaen > const char *(*quote_arg)(const char *arg) = > is_msys2_sh(*argv) ? quote_arg_msys2 : quote_arg_msvc; > > + /* Make sure to override previous errors, if any */ > + errno = 0; > + > if (restrict_handle_inheritance < 0) > restrict_handle_inheritance = core_restrict_inherited_handles; > /* > @@ -1580,8 +1583,8 @@ static pid_t mingw_spawnve_fd(const char *cmd, const char **argv, char **deltaen > ret = CreateProcessW(*wcmd ? wcmd : NULL, wargs, NULL, NULL, > TRUE, flags, wenvblk, dir ? wdir : NULL, > &si.StartupInfo, &pi); > + errno = err_win_to_posix(GetLastError()); I think this should be protected by 'if (!ret)' because err_win_to_posix() does not handle ERROR_SUCCESS and turns it into ENOSYS. It's not that bad because in the case of success we do not guarantee any value of errno anyway. > if (ret && buf.len) { > - errno = err_win_to_posix(GetLastError()); > warning("failed to restrict file handles (%ld)\n\n%s", > err, buf.buf); > } > That said, this fixes the failure. -- Hannes