We used to simply try calling execvp(); if it succeeded,
then we were done and the new program was running. If it
didn't, then we knew that it wasn't a valid command.
Unfortunately, this interacted badly with the new pager
handling. Now that git remains the parent process and the
pager is spawned, git has to hang around until the pager is
finished. We install an atexit handler to do this, but that
handler never gets called if we successfully run execvp.
You could see this behavior by running any dashed external
using a pager (e.g., "git -p stash list"). The command
finishes running, but the pager is still going. In the case
of less, it then gets an error reading from the terminal and
exits, potentially leaving the terminal in a broken state
(and not showing the output).
This patch just uses run_command to try running the
dashed external. The parent git process then waits for the
external process to complete and then handles the pager
cleanup as it would for an internal command.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>
---
git.c | 14 ++++++++++----
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 45e493d..79a836c 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
#include "exec_cmd.h"
#include "cache.h"
#include "quote.h"
+#include "run-command.h"
const char git_usage_string[] =
"git [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]";
@@ -392,6 +393,7 @@ static void execv_dashed_external(const char **argv)
{
struct strbuf cmd = STRBUF_INIT;
const char *tmp;
+ int status;
strbuf_addf(&cmd, "git-%s", argv[0]);
@@ -406,10 +408,14 @@ static void execv_dashed_external(const char **argv)
trace_argv_printf(argv, "trace: exec:");
- /* execvp() can only ever return if it fails */
- execvp(cmd.buf, (char **)argv);
-
- trace_printf("trace: exec failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+ /*
+ * if we fail because the command is not found, it is
+ * OK to return. Otherwise, we just pass along the status code.
+ */
+ status = run_command_v_opt(argv, 0);
+ if (status != -ERR_RUN_COMMAND_EXEC)
+ exit(status);
+ errno = ENOENT; /* as if we called execvp */
argv[0] = tmp;
--
1.6.1.1.367.g30b36
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