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authorMichal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>2006-01-10 21:12:17 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-01-13 16:49:01 -0800
commit77cb17e940c806a4cc811bfd66187277b729a1e7 (patch)
treeaae0b04758379c89b2dd2d02dd44c97b4d33998f /run-command.c
parentc884dd9a54fcde71ea125c86e6b6ab92acbbc7cf (diff)
downloadgit-77cb17e940c806a4cc811bfd66187277b729a1e7.tar.gz
Exec git programs without using PATH.
The git suite may not be in PATH (and thus programs such as git-send-pack could not exec git-rev-list). Thus there is a need for logic that will locate these programs. Modifying PATH is not desirable as it result in behavior differing from the user's intentions, as we may end up prepending "/usr/bin" to PATH. - git C programs will use exec*_git_cmd() APIs to exec sub-commands. - exec*_git_cmd() will execute a git program by searching for it in the following directories: 1. --exec-path (as used by "git") 2. The GIT_EXEC_PATH environment variable. 3. $(gitexecdir) as set in Makefile (default value $(bindir)). - git wrapper will modify PATH as before to enable shell scripts to invoke "git-foo" commands. Ideally, shell scripts should use the git wrapper to become independent of PATH, and then modifying PATH will not be necessary. [jc: with minor updates after a brief review.] Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'run-command.c')
-rw-r--r--run-command.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
index 8bf5922fc3..b3d287e97e 100644
--- a/run-command.c
+++ b/run-command.c
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
#include "cache.h"
#include "run-command.h"
#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include "exec_cmd.h"
int run_command_v_opt(int argc, char **argv, int flags)
{
@@ -13,9 +14,13 @@ int run_command_v_opt(int argc, char **argv, int flags)
int fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
dup2(fd, 0);
dup2(fd, 1);
- close(fd);
+ close(fd);
+ }
+ if (flags & RUN_GIT_CMD) {
+ execv_git_cmd(argv);
+ } else {
+ execvp(argv[0], (char *const*) argv);
}
- execvp(argv[0], (char *const*) argv);
die("exec %s failed.", argv[0]);
}
for (;;) {