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Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] mingw: ensure temporary file handles are not inherited by child processes

From: Eric Wong <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-22 17:58:29

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:
As Eric Wong pointed out, we need to be careful to handle the case where
the Linux headers used to compile Git support O_CLOEXEC but the Linux
kernel used to run Git does not: it returns an EINVAL.
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+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -667,6 +667,10 @@ void *gitmemmem(const void *haystack, size_t haystacklen,
 #define getpagesize() sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE)
 #endif
 
+#ifndef O_CLOEXEC
+#define O_CLOEXEC 0
+#endif
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+++ b/tempfile.c
@@ -120,7 +120,12 @@ int create_tempfile(struct tempfile *tempfile, const char *path)
 	prepare_tempfile_object(tempfile);
 
 	strbuf_add_absolute_path(&tempfile->filename, path);
-	tempfile->fd = open(tempfile->filename.buf, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0666);
+	tempfile->fd = open(tempfile->filename.buf,
+			    O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_CLOEXEC, 0666);
+	if (O_CLOEXEC && tempfile->fd < 0 && errno == EINVAL)
+		/* Try again w/o O_CLOEXEC: the kernel might not support it */
+		tempfile->fd = open(tempfile->filename.buf,
+				    O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0666);
 	if (tempfile->fd < 0) {
 		strbuf_reset(&tempfile->filename);
 		return -1;
Looks good to me from a Linux standpoint.  Thanks.
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