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Re: [PATCH] shell: add missing initialization of argv0_path

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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
May 5, 2011, 06:58 UTC
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Am 5/5/2011 8:40, schrieb Dima Sharov:
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> According to c6dfb39 (remote-curl: add missing initialization of
> argv0_path, 2009-10-13), stand-alone programs (non-builtins)
> must call git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]) in order to help builds
> that derive the installation prefix at runtime. Without this call,
> the program segfaults (or raises an assertion failure).

Good catch! I checked PROGRAM_OBJS in Makefile, and shell.c was the only one remaining that did not call this function.

-- Hannes
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