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[Replacement PATCH 1/7] MinGW: truncate exit()'s argument to lowest 8 bits

From
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date
Jul 5, 2009, 18:57 UTC
Message-ID
<200907052057.46200.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To
<b73cf4b4cd09f4225098e71182044f64e12380aa.1246734159.git.j6t@kdbg.org>

For some reason, MinGW's bash cannot reliably detect failure of the child process if a negative value is passed to exit(). This fixes it by truncating the exit code in all calls of exit().

This issue was worked around in run_builtin() of git.c (2488df84 builtin run_command: do not exit with -1, 2007-11-15). This workaround is no longer necessary and is reverted.

Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
---
 compat/mingw.h |    2 ++
 git.c          |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h
index 4f7ba4c..c1859c5 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.h
+++ b/compat/mingw.h
@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ static inline int fcntl(int fd, int cmd, long arg)
 	errno = EINVAL;
 	return -1;
 }
+/* bash cannot reliably detect negative return codes as failure */
+#define exit(code) exit((code) & 0xff)
 
 /*
  * simple adaptors
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index f4d53f4..65ed733 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static int run_builtin(struct cmd_struct *p, int argc, const char **argv)
 
 	status = p->fn(argc, argv, prefix);
 	if (status)
-		return status & 0xff;
+		return status;
 
 	/* Somebody closed stdout? */
 	if (fstat(fileno(stdout), &st))
-- 
1.6.3.3.393.g6b649
Previous: Johannes Sixt
Message 12 of 12 in “rework run_command error reporting”
  1. 0/7 rework run_command error reportingJohannes Sixt, Jul 4, 2009
  2. 1/7 Truncate result of run_command that is used in exit() to lowest 8 bitsJohannes Sixt, Jul 4, 2009
  3. 2/7 MinGW: simplify waitpid() emulation macrosJohannes Sixt, Jul 4, 2009
  4. 3/7 run_command: return exit code as positive valueJohannes Sixt, Jul 4, 2009
  5. 4/7 run_command: report system call errors instead of returning error codesJohannes Sixt, Jul 4, 2009
  6. 5/7 run_command: encode deadly signal number in the return valueJohannes Sixt, Jul 4, 2009
  7. 6/7 run_command: report failure to execute the program, but optionally don'tJohannes Sixt, Jul 4, 2009
  8. 7/7 receive-pack: remove unnecessary run_status reportJohannes Sixt, Jul 4, 2009
  9. Johannes SixtJul 5, 2009
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 5, 2009
  11. Johannes SixtJul 6, 2009
  12. 1/7 MinGW: truncate exit()'s argument to lowest 8 bitsJohannes Sixt, Jul 5, 2009

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