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Re: [PATCH] quickfetch(): Prevent overflow of the rev-list command line

From
Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date
Jul 9, 2009, 09:07 UTC
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<200907091107.46838.johan@herland.net>
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On Thursday 09 July 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote:
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> Johan Herland schrieb:
> > Does anybody with Windows/MSYS experience know how this scenario
> > (write() to a terminated process, followed by close()) would play out
> > in msysGit?
>
> The first write() sometimes fails with EPIPE, otherwise it fails with
> EINVAL. All subsequent write()s fail with EINVAL. The setting of SIGPIPE
> is irrelevant because it is unknown to Windows.
>
> There's precedent already in write_or_die.c. You should not write the
> error message for both EPIPE and EINVAL.

Thanks, but what about the subsequent close()? Will it fail with EINVAL? EBADF? or will is succeed (like on Linux)?

I will send an updated patch with all fixes, as soon as I know what to do about close().

...Johan
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Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
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Message 10 of 28 in “msysgit git-submodule: "Unable to fetch in submodule path ..."”
  1. Peter KreftingJun 18, 2009
  2. Peter KreftingJun 22, 2009
  3. quickfetch(): Prevent overflow of the rev-list command lineJohan Herland, Jul 8, 2009
  4. Johannes SixtJul 8, 2009
  5. Johan HerlandJul 8, 2009
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2009
  7. Johan HerlandJul 9, 2009
  8. Alex RiesenJul 9, 2009
  9. Johannes SixtJul 9, 2009
  10. Johan HerlandJul 9, 2009
  11. Johannes SixtJul 9, 2009
  12. quickfetch(): Prevent overflow of the rev-list command lineJohan Herland, Jul 9, 2009
  13. Johannes SixtJul 9, 2009
  14. quickfetch(): Prevent overflow of the rev-list command lineJohan Herland, Jul 9, 2009
  15. Johannes SixtJul 9, 2009
  16. Jeff KingJul 9, 2009
  17. quickfetch(): Prevent overflow of the rev-list command lineJohan Herland, Jul 9, 2009
  18. Johannes SixtJul 9, 2009
  19. quickfetch(): Prevent overflow of the rev-list command lineJohan Herland, Jul 9, 2009
  20. Junio C HamanoJul 11, 2009
  21. Johan HerlandJul 11, 2009
  22. Johan HerlandJul 9, 2009
  23. Johannes SixtJul 9, 2009
  24. Johan HerlandJul 9, 2009
  25. Johannes SixtJul 9, 2009
  26. Alex RiesenJul 9, 2009
  27. Johan HerlandJul 9, 2009
  28. Alex RiesenJul 9, 2009

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