"András Kucsma via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> From: Andras Kucsma <r0maikx02b@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> On Windows with git installed through cygwin, GIT_ASKPASS failed to run
> for relative and absolute paths containing only backslashes as directory
> separators.
>
> The reason was that git assumed that if there are no forward slashes in
> the executable path, it has to search for the executable on the PATH.
Also if I were reading the discussion correctly, there was a doubt
about locate_in_PATH() that may not work on Windows for at least two
reasons. Is it OK to ignore these issues, and if so why?
I know if you have a full path, a broken locate_in_PATH() would be
skipped and won't cause an immediate issue, but this change to make
the code realize that "a\\b" is not asking to search in %PATH% feels
just a beginning of a fix, not the whole fix, at least to me.
> The fix is to look for OS specific directory separators, not just
> forward slashes.
Yes, but it is quite unfortunate that you would use a function that
has to scan the string to the end because it asks for the last one.
Perhaps introduce
--------------------------------------------------
#ifndef has_dir_sep
static inline int git_has_dir_sep(const char *path)
{
return !!strchr(path, '/');
}
#define has_dir_sep(path) git_has_dir_sep(path)
#endif
--------------------------------------------------
in <git-compat-util.h>, with a replacement definition in
<compat/win32/path-utils.h> that may read
--------------------------------------------------
#define has_dir_sep(path) win32_has_dir_sep(path)
static inline int has_dir_sep(const char *path)
{
/*
* See how long the non-separator part of the given path is, and
* if and only if it covers the whole path (i.e. path[len] is NUL),
* there is no separator in the path---otherwise there is a separaptor.
*/
size_t len = strcspn(path, "/\\");
return !!path[len];
}
--------------------------------------------------
and use that instead?
> diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
> index f5e1149f9b3..9fcc12ebf9c 100644
> --- a/run-command.c
> +++ b/run-command.c
> @@ -421,12 +421,12 @@ static int prepare_cmd(struct argv_array *out, const struct child_process *cmd)
> }
>
> /*
> - * If there are no '/' characters in the command then perform a path
> - * lookup and use the resolved path as the command to exec. If there
> - * are '/' characters, we have exec attempt to invoke the command
> - * directly.
> + * If there are no dir separator characters in the command then perform
> + * a path lookup and use the resolved path as the command to exec. If
> + * there are dir separator characters, we have exec attempt to invoke
> + * the command directly.
> */
> - if (!strchr(out->argv[1], '/')) {
> + if (find_last_dir_sep(out->argv[1]) == NULL) {
> char *program = locate_in_PATH(out->argv[1]);
> if (program) {
> free((char *)out->argv[1]);
>
> base-commit: 274b9cc25322d9ee79aa8e6d4e86f0ffe5ced925
