Re: [PATCH 3/4] mingw: spawned processes need to inherit only standard handles

[Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>]

Am 29.11.19 um 14:52 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2019, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> Am 22.11.19 um 15:41 schrieb Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget:
>>> +		    !getenv("SUPPRESS_HANDLE_INHERITANCE_WARNING")) {
>>
>> ... and the variable isn't set, so we continue here. (But I don't think
>> it is important.)

It's actually not that unimportant because ...

>>
>>> +			DWORD fl = 0;
>>> +			int i;
>>> +
>>> +			setenv("SUPPRESS_HANDLE_INHERITANCE_WARNING", "1", 1);
>>> +
>>> +			for (i = 0; i < stdhandles_count; i++) {
>>> +				HANDLE h = stdhandles[i];
>>> +				strbuf_addf(&buf, "handle #%d: %p (type %lx, "
>>> +					    "handle info (%d) %lx\n", i, h,
>>> +					    GetFileType(h),
>>> +					    GetHandleInformation(h, &fl),
>>> +					    fl);

... ERANGE happens here in the second iteration, in particular, when
strbuf_vaddf needs to grow the buffer. vsnprintf generates it.

>>> +			}
>>> +			strbuf_addstr(&buf, "\nThis is a bug; please report it "
>>> +				      "at\nhttps://github.com/git-for-windows/"
>>> +				      "git/issues/new\n\n"
>>> +				      "To suppress this warning, please set "
>>> +				      "the environment variable\n\n"
>>> +				      "\tSUPPRESS_HANDLE_INHERITANCE_WARNING=1"
>>> +				      "\n");
>>> +		}

-- Hannes