From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2016 20:07:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 80/83] run-command: make dup_devnull() non static
Message-ID: <572BA80E.3000309@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD2f1L3YKNBA4zP1bmGe8BQitxZp-aDsGP5UTDv06LbLBg@mail.gmail.com>

Am 05.05.2016 um 11:50 schrieb Christian Couder:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> On Sun, 24 Apr 2016, Christian Couder wrote:
>>
>>> diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
>>> index 8c7115a..29d2bda 100644
>>> --- a/run-command.c
>>> +++ b/run-command.c
>>> @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static inline void close_pair(int fd[2])
>>>   }
>>>
>>>   #ifndef GIT_WINDOWS_NATIVE
>>> -static inline void dup_devnull(int to)
>>> +void dup_devnull(int to)
>>>   {
>>
>> The #ifndef GIT_WINDOWS_NATIVE rings very, very loud alarm bells.
>
> Yeah, but I must say that I don't know what I should do about this.
> Do you have a suggestion? Should I try to implement the same function
> for Windows?

No, just remove the #ifndef brackets. There is already code in 
compat/mingw.c that treats the file name "/dev/null" specially.

-- Hannes