[PATCH 2/4] mingw: work around incorrect standard handles

From: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 22, 2019, 14:41 UTC
Message-ID: <f68b4094a2985217a0229fd6432cece9d91b25e5.1574433665.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.670.git.git.1574433665.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

For some reason, when being called via TortoiseGit the standard handles, or at least what is returned by _get_osfhandle(0) for standard input, can take on the value (HANDLE)-2 (which is not a legal value, according to the documentation).

Even if this value is not documented anywhere, CreateProcess() seems to work fine without complaints if hStdInput set to this value.

In contrast, the upcoming code to restrict which file handles get inherited by spawned processes would result in `ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER` when including such handle values in the list.

To help this, special-case the value (HANDLE)-2 returned by _get_osfhandle() and replace it with INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, which will hopefully let the handle inheritance restriction work even when called from TortoiseGit.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1481

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 compat/winansi.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/compat/winansi.c b/compat/winansi.c
index 54fd701cbf..c27b20a79d 100644
--- a/compat/winansi.c
+++ b/compat/winansi.c
@@ -662,10 +662,20 @@ void winansi_init(void)
  */
 HANDLE winansi_get_osfhandle(int fd)
 {
+	HANDLE ret;
+
 	if (fd == 1 && (fd_is_interactive[1] & FD_SWAPPED))
 		return hconsole1;
 	if (fd == 2 && (fd_is_interactive[2] & FD_SWAPPED))
 		return hconsole2;
 
-	return (HANDLE)_get_osfhandle(fd);
+	ret = (HANDLE)_get_osfhandle(fd);
+
+	/*
+	 * There are obviously circumstances under which _get_osfhandle()
+	 * returns (HANDLE)-2. This is not documented anywhere, but that is so
+	 * clearly an invalid handle value that we can just work around this
+	 * and return the correct value for invalid handles.
+	 */
+	return ret == (HANDLE)-2 ? INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE : ret;
 }

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