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Re: [PATCH] is_submodule_modified(): clear environment properly

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 24, 2010, 03:32 UTC
Message-ID
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In-Reply-To
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Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> wrote:
>> Only GIT_INDEX_FILE was cleared until now, but other environment variables
>> have to be cleared too before running git status in a submodule.
>>
> Of course this third use-case has a difference in that GIT_DIR is
> actually set to something else and not just cleared, but this
> particular case could just deep-copy the array modifying the
> appropriate entry.
Something like this, I guess.

It is a bit frustrating that local_repo_env[] is a NULL terminated array and we cannot use ARRAY_SIZE(local_repo_env) as a compile-time constant.

 submodule.c |   26 +++++++++++++++-----------
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/submodule.c b/submodule.c
index 7d70c4f..5bd70c4 100644
--- a/submodule.c
+++ b/submodule.c
@@ -123,14 +123,14 @@ void show_submodule_summary(FILE *f, const char *path,
 
 int is_submodule_modified(const char *path)
 {
-	int len;
+	int len, i, dynbase;
 	struct child_process cp;
 	const char *argv[] = {
 		"status",
 		"--porcelain",
 		NULL,
 	};
-	char *env[4];
+	const char *env[20];
 	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
 
 	strbuf_addf(&buf, "%s/.git/", path);
@@ -142,17 +142,21 @@ int is_submodule_modified(const char *path)
 	}
 	strbuf_reset(&buf);
 
+	for (i = 0; local_repo_env[i] && i < ARRAY_SIZE(env); i++)
+		env[i] = local_repo_env[i];
+	if (ARRAY_SIZE(env) <= i + 3)
+		die("Bug: recompile submodule.c with larger array size");
+	dynbase = i;
+
 	strbuf_addf(&buf, "GIT_WORK_TREE=%s", path);
-	env[0] = strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL);
+	env[i++] = strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL);
 	strbuf_addf(&buf, "GIT_DIR=%s/.git", path);
-	env[1] = strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL);
-	strbuf_addf(&buf, "GIT_INDEX_FILE");
-	env[2] = strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL);
-	env[3] = NULL;
+	env[i++] = strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL);
+	env[i++] = NULL;
 
 	memset(&cp, 0, sizeof(cp));
 	cp.argv = argv;
-	cp.env = (const char *const *)env;
+	cp.env = env;
 	cp.git_cmd = 1;
 	cp.no_stdin = 1;
 	cp.out = -1;
@@ -165,9 +169,9 @@ int is_submodule_modified(const char *path)
 	if (finish_command(&cp))
 		die("git status --porcelain failed");
 
-	free(env[0]);
-	free(env[1]);
-	free(env[2]);
+	for (i = dynbase; env[i]; i++)
+		free((char *)env[i]);
+
 	strbuf_release(&buf);
 	return len != 0;
 }
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  1. is_submodule_modified(): clear environment properlyJens Lehmann, Feb 23, 2010
  2. Giuseppe BilottaFeb 23, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2010
  4. Giuseppe BilottaFeb 24, 2010

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