Subject: [Replacement PATCH 1/7] MinGW: truncate exit()'s argument to lowest 8 bits
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git
Date: 2009-07-05 18:57:46 GMT (35 weeks, 3 days, 5 hours and 31 minutes ago)
For some reason, MinGW's bash cannot reliably detect failure of the child process if a negative value is passed to exit(). This fixes it by truncating the exit code in all calls of exit(). This issue was worked around in run_builtin() of git.c (2488df84 builtin run_command: do not exit with -1, 2007-11-15). This workaround is no longer necessary and is reverted. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t <at> kdbg.org> --- compat/mingw.h | 2 ++ git.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h index 4f7ba4c..c1859c5 100644 --- a/compat/mingw.h +++ b/compat/mingw.h @@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ static inline int fcntl(int fd, int cmd, long arg) errno = EINVAL; return -1; } +/* bash cannot reliably detect negative return codes as failure */ +#define exit(code) exit((code) & 0xff) /* * simple adaptors diff --git a/git.c b/git.c index f4d53f4..65ed733 100644 --- a/git.c +++ b/git.c @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static int run_builtin(struct cmd_struct *p, int argc, const char **argv) status = p->fn(argc, argv, prefix); if (status) - return status & 0xff; + return status; /* Somebody closed stdout? */ if (fstat(fileno(stdout), &st)) -- 1.6.3.3.393.g6b649