[PATCH] compat/mingw.[ch]: Change return type of exec functions to int

From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Apr 5, 2012, 17:48 UTC
Message-ID: <4F7DDAFE.1060902@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>

The POSIX standard specifies a return type of int for all six exec functions. In addition, all exec functions return -1 on error, and simply do not return on success. However, the current emulation of the exec functions on mingw are declared with a void return type.

This would cause a problem should any code attempt to call the exec function in a non-void context. In particular, if an exec function were used in a conditional it would fail to compile.

In order to improve the fidelity of the emulation, we change the return type of the mingw_execv[p] functions to int and return -1 on error.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
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Hi Jeff,

Since commit b0984f82 ("run-command: treat inaccessible directories as ENOENT", 30-03-2012), the mingw build fails as follows:

        CC run-command.o
    run-command.c: In function 'sane_execvp':
    run-command.c:124: error: invalid use of void expression
    make: *** [run-command.o] Error 1

My first reaction was to simply remove the conditional since, if execvp() returns at all, the result will always be -1 and so the condition will always be false. ie. the conditional is pointless.

However, I found the incorrect return type of the mingw_execv[p]() to be a gratuitous incompatibility, so ... :-P

Could you (or Junio?) add this patch prior to your patch on this branch ? Thanks in advance!

I will let you decide if you want to remove the conditional as well ...

ATB, Ramsay Jones

 compat/mingw.c |    6 ++++--
 compat/mingw.h |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index a0ac487..afc892d 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -1003,7 +1003,7 @@ static void mingw_execve(const char *cmd, char *const *argv, char *const *env)
 	}
 }
 
-void mingw_execvp(const char *cmd, char *const *argv)
+int mingw_execvp(const char *cmd, char *const *argv)
 {
 	char **path = get_path_split();
 	char *prog = path_lookup(cmd, path, 0);
@@ -1015,11 +1015,13 @@ void mingw_execvp(const char *cmd, char *const *argv)
 		errno = ENOENT;
 
 	free_path_split(path);
+	return -1;
 }
 
-void mingw_execv(const char *cmd, char *const *argv)
+int mingw_execv(const char *cmd, char *const *argv)
 {
 	mingw_execve(cmd, argv, environ);
+	return -1;
 }
 
 int mingw_kill(pid_t pid, int sig)
diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h
index 0ff1e04..ef5b150 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.h
+++ b/compat/mingw.h
@@ -274,9 +274,9 @@ int mingw_utime(const char *file_name, const struct utimbuf *times);
 pid_t mingw_spawnvpe(const char *cmd, const char **argv, char **env,
 		     const char *dir,
 		     int fhin, int fhout, int fherr);
-void mingw_execvp(const char *cmd, char *const *argv);
+int mingw_execvp(const char *cmd, char *const *argv);
 #define execvp mingw_execvp
-void mingw_execv(const char *cmd, char *const *argv);
+int mingw_execv(const char *cmd, char *const *argv);
 #define execv mingw_execv
 
 static inline unsigned int git_ntohl(unsigned int x)

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