Re: [PATCH] Fix buffer overflow in git-grep

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Hi,

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > For instance, git show will show you nothing at all and exit with 0.
> > The same problem with git whatchanged. The whole history mysteriously
> > disappeared at that commit, and git whatchanged exited with 0 without
> > any error or warning... Though git log will show you all history, but
> > if you run it with -p then it will also exit with zero at this commit
> > silently like previously history do not exist at all.
> 
> It turned out that git actually crashed while doing diff, but because it
> was a forked process, the parent exited normally with code 0. I wonder
> should not the parent process to exit with a non-zero code if the child
> died by SIGSEG or another signal?

We'll probably need to use the MinGW pager handling for Unix, too, and 
check for a died child.

Not overly trivial, though.

Ciao,
Dscho

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