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Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Brown-bag fix on top of js/mingw-inherit-only-std-handles

From
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date
Dec 2, 2019, 17:35 UTC
Message-ID
<a4ac4530-9b5c-3eb6-ada2-067c6ef73868@kdbg.org>
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Am 02.12.19 um 12:33 schrieb Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget:
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> Range-diff vs v2:
> 
>  1:  280b6d08a4 = 1:  280b6d08a4 mingw: do set `errno` correctly when trying to restrict handle inheritance
>  2:  c3dea00fb1 ! 2:  e04e1269b3 mingw: translate ERROR_SUCCESS to errno = 0
>      @@ -3,12 +3,15 @@
>           mingw: translate ERROR_SUCCESS to errno = 0
The subject line would have to be adjusted as well.
	mingw: forbid translating ERROR_SUCCESS to an errno value
or something.
Show 29 quoted lines
>       
>           Johannes Sixt pointed out that the `err_win_to_posix()` function
>      -    mishandles `ERROR_SUCCESS`. This commit fixes that.
>      +    mishandles `ERROR_SUCCESS`: it maps it to `ENOSYS`.
>       
>      -    Technically, we try to only assign `errno` to the corresponding value of
>      -    `GetLastError()` (which translation is performed by that function) when
>      -    a Win32 API call failed, so this change is purely defensive and is not
>      -    expected to fix an existing bug in our code base.
>      +    The only purpose of this function is to map Win32 API errors to `errno`
>      +    ones, and there is actually no equivalent to `ERROR_SUCCESS`: the idea
>      +    of `errno` is that it will only be set in case of an error, and left
>      +    alone in case of success.
>      +
>      +    Therefore, as pointed out by Junio Hamano, it is a bug to call this
>      +    function when there was not even any error to map.
>       
>           Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>       
>      @@ -19,7 +22,7 @@
>        	case ERROR_SHARING_BUFFER_EXCEEDED: error = ENFILE; break;
>        	case ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION: error = EACCES; break;
>        	case ERROR_STACK_OVERFLOW: error = ENOMEM; break;
>      -+	case ERROR_SUCCESS: error = 0; break;
>      ++	case ERROR_SUCCESS: BUG("err_win_to_posix() called without an error!");
>        	case ERROR_SWAPERROR: error = ENOENT; break;
>        	case ERROR_TOO_MANY_MODULES: error = EMFILE; break;
>        	case ERROR_TOO_MANY_OPEN_FILES: error = EMFILE; break;
> 
-- Hannes
Previous: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadgetNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 25 of 27 in “Brown-bag fix on top of js/mingw-inherit-only-std-handles”
  1. 0/1 Brown-bag fix on top of js/mingw-inherit-only-std-handlesJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Nov 29, 2019
  2. 1/1 mingw: do set `errno` correctly when trying to restrict handle inheritanceJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Nov 29, 2019
  3. Johannes SixtNov 29, 2019
  4. Johannes SchindelinNov 30, 2019
  5. Johannes SixtNov 30, 2019
  6. 0/2 Brown-bag fix on top of js/mingw-inherit-only-std-handlesJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Nov 30, 2019
  7. 1/2 mingw: do set `errno` correctly when trying to restrict handle inheritanceJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Nov 30, 2019
  8. 2/2 mingw: translate ERROR_SUCCESS to errno = 0Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Nov 30, 2019
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 30, 2019
  10. Johannes SixtNov 30, 2019
  11. Andreas SchwabNov 30, 2019
  12. Junio C HamanoNov 30, 2019
  13. Andreas SchwabNov 30, 2019
  14. Johannes SchindelinNov 30, 2019
  15. Junio C HamanoNov 30, 2019
  16. Junio C HamanoDec 1, 2019
  17. Johannes SchindelinDec 1, 2019
  18. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2019
  19. Johannes SchindelinDec 2, 2019
  20. Johannes SixtNov 30, 2019
  21. Junio C HamanoNov 30, 2019
  22. 0/2 Brown-bag fix on top of js/mingw-inherit-only-std-handlesJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Dec 2, 2019
  23. 2/2 mingw: translate ERROR_SUCCESS to errno = 0Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Dec 2, 2019
  24. 1/2 mingw: do set `errno` correctly when trying to restrict handle inheritanceJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Dec 2, 2019
  25. Johannes SixtDec 2, 2019
  26. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2019
  27. Johannes SchindelinDec 3, 2019

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