From d41df15e6913e8f7e1b5d656bb51dc4268232c36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:12:12 +1300
Subject: [PATCH] exportcommit: replace backticks with safe_pipe_capture() or
 system() - initial pass

Replaced backticks with potentially troublesome unescaped input with
safe_pipe_capture().

Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
 git-cvsexportcommit.perl | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-cvsexportcommit.perl b/git-cvsexportcommit.perl
index d5fbee7ba0..7b3a3d323b 100755
--- a/git-cvsexportcommit.perl
+++ b/git-cvsexportcommit.perl
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ print Dumper(@ARGV);
 # resolve target commit
 my $commit;
 $commit = pop @ARGV;
-$commit = `git-rev-parse --verify "$commit"^0`;
+$commit = safe_pipe_capture('git-rev-parse', '--verify', "$commit^0");
 chomp $commit;
 if ($?) {
     die "The commit reference $commit did not resolve!";
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ if ($?) {
 my $parent;
 if (@ARGV) {
     $parent = pop @ARGV;
-    $parent =  `git-rev-parse --verify "$parent"^0"`;
+    $parent =  safe_pipe_capture('git-rev-parse', '--verify', "$parent^0");
     chomp $parent;
     if ($?) {
 	die "The parent reference did not resolve!";
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ if (@ARGV) {
 }
 
 # find parents from the commit itself
-my @commit  = `git-cat-file commit $commit`;
+my @commit  = safe_pipe_capture('git-cat-file', 'commit', $commit);
 my @parents;
 foreach my $p (@commit) {
     if ($p =~ m/^$/) { # end of commit headers, we're done
@@ -81,12 +81,12 @@ $opt_v && print "Applying to CVS commit $commit from parent $parent\n";
 $? && die "Error extracting the commit message";
 
 my (@afiles, @dfiles, @mfiles);
-my @files = `git-diff-tree -r $parent $commit`;
+my @files = safe_pipe_capture('git-diff-tree', '-r', $parent, $commit);
 print @files;
 $? && die "Error in git-diff-tree";
 foreach my $f (@files) {
     chomp $f;
-    my @fields = split(m/\s+/, $f);
+    my @fields = split(m!\s+!, $f);
     if ($fields[4] eq 'A') {
 	push @afiles, $fields[5];
     }
@@ -104,18 +104,19 @@ undef @files; # don't need it anymore
 # check that the files are clean and up to date according to cvs
 my $dirty;
 foreach my $f (@afiles) {
-    my $status = `cvs -q status "$f" | grep '^File: '`;
-
-    unless ($status =~ m/Status: Unknown$/) {
-	$dirty = 1;
+    # This should return only one value
+    my @status = grep(m/^File/,  safe_pipe_capture('cvs', '-q', 'status' ,$f));
+    if (@status > 1) { warn 'Strange! cvs status returned more than one line?'};
+    unless ($status[0] =~ m/Status: Unknown$/) {
+ 	$dirty = 1;
 	warn "File $f is already known in your CVS checkout!\n";
     }
 }
 foreach my $f (@mfiles, @dfiles) {
     # TODO:we need to handle removed in cvs
-    my $status = `cvs -q status "$f" | grep '^File: '`;
-
-    unless ($status =~ m/Status: Up-to-date$/) {
+    my @status = grep(m/^File/,  safe_pipe_capture('cvs', '-q', 'status' ,$f));
+    if (@status > 1) { warn 'Strange! cvs status returned more than one line?'};
+    unless ($status[0] =~ m/Status: Up-to-date$/) {
 	$dirty = 1;
 	warn "File $f not up to date in your CVS checkout!\n";
     }
@@ -132,18 +133,17 @@ if ($dirty) {
 
 print "'Patching' binary files\n";
 
-my @bfiles = `git-diff-tree -p $parent $commit | grep '^Binary'`;
+my @bfiles = grep(m/^Binary/, safe_pipe_capture('git-diff-tree', '-p', $parent, $commit));
 @bfiles = map { chomp } @bfiles;
 foreach my $f (@bfiles) {
     # check that the file in cvs matches the "old" file
     # extract the file to $tmpdir and comparre with cmp
-    my $tree = `git-rev-parse $parent^{tree} `;
+    my $tree = safe_pipe_capture('git-rev-parse', "$parent^{tree}");
     chomp $tree;
     my $blob = `git-ls-tree $tree "$f" | cut -f 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 3`;
     chomp $blob;
     `git-cat-file blob $blob > $tmpdir/blob`;
-    `cmp -q $f $tmpdir/blob`;
-    if ($?) {
+    if (system('cmp', '-q', $f, "$tmpdir/blob")) {
 	warn "Binary file $f in CVS does not match parent.\n";
 	$dirty = 1;
 	next;
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ if (($? >> 8) == 2) {
 }
 
 foreach my $f (@afiles) {
-    `cvs add $f`;
+    system('cvs', 'add', $f);
     if ($?) {
 	$dirty = 1;
 	warn "Failed to cvs add $f -- you may need to do it manually";
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ foreach my $f (@afiles) {
 }
 
 foreach my $f (@dfiles) {
-    `cvs rm -f $f`;
+    system('cvs', 'rm', '-f', $f);
     if ($?) {
 	$dirty = 1;
 	warn "Failed to cvs rm -f $f -- you may need to do it manually";
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ if ($dirtypatch) {
 
 if ($opt_c) {
     print "Autocommit\n  $cmd\n";
-    print `cvs commit -F .msg $commitfiles 2>&1`;
+    print safe_pipe_capture('cvs', 'commit', '-F', '.msg', @afiles, @mfiles, @dfiles);
     if ($?) {
 	cleanupcvs(@files);
 	die "Exiting: The commit did not succeed";
@@ -224,10 +224,23 @@ END
 sub cleanupcvs {
     my @files = @_;
     foreach my $f (@files) {
-	`cvs -q update -C "$f"`;
+	system('cvs', '-q', 'update', '-C', $f);
 	if ($?) {
 	    warn "Warning! Failed to cleanup state of $f\n";
 	}
     }
 }
 
+# An alterative to `command` that allows input to be passed as an array
+# to work around shell problems with weird characters in arguments
+# if the exec returns non-zero we die
+sub safe_pipe_capture {
+    my @output;
+    if (my $pid = open my $child, '-|') {
+	@output = (<$child>);
+	close $child or die join(' ',@_).": $! $?";
+    } else {
+	exec(@_) or die "$! $?"; # exec() can fail the executable can't be found
+    }
+    return wantarray ? @output : join('',@output);
+}