We have replaced rename() with a version that can rename a file to a
destination that already exists. Nevertheless, many users, the author
included, observe failures in the code that are not reproducible.
The theory is that the failures are due to some other process that happens
to have opened the destination file briefly at the wrong moment. (And there
is no way on Windows to delete or replace a file that is currently open.)
The most likely candidate for such a process is a virus scanner. The
failure is more often observed while there is heavy git activity (for
example while the test suite is running or during a rebase operation).
We work around the failure by retrying the rename operation if it failed
due to ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED. The retries are delayed a bit: The first only
by giving up the time slice, the next after the minimal scheduling
granularity, and if more retries are needed, then we wait some non-trivial
amount of time with exponential back-off.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before a process can be spawned by mingw_spawnve, arguments must be
surrounded by double-quotes if special characters are present. This is
necessary because the startup code of the spawned process will expand
arguments that look like glob patterns. "Normal" Windows command line
utilities expand only * and ?, but MSYS programs, including bash, are
different: They also expand braces, and this has already been taken care
of by compat/mingw.c:quote_arg().
But MSYS programs also treat single-quotes in a special way: Arguments
between single-quotes are spliced together (with spaces) into a word.
With this patch this treatment is avoided by quoting arguments that contain
single-quotes.
This lets t4252 pass on Windows.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function translates many possible Win32 error codes to suitable
errno numbers. We will use it in our wrapper functions that need to call
into Win32.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The type 'off_t' should be used everywhere so that the bit-depth of that
type can be adjusted in the standard C library, and you just need to
recompile your program to benefit from the extended precision.
Only that it was not done that way in the MS runtime library.
This patch reroutes off_t to off64_t and provides the other necessary
changes so that finally, clones larger than 2 gigabyte work on Windows
(provided you are on a file system that allows files larger than 2gb).
Initial patch by Sickboy <sb@dev-heaven.net>.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On POSIX, rename() can replace files that are not writable. On Windows,
however, read-only files cannot be replaced without additional efforts:
We have to make the destination writable first.
Since the situations where the destination is read-only are rare, we do not
make the destination writable on every invocation, but only if the first
try to rename a file failed with an "access denied" error.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Apparently, CREATE_NO_WINDOW makes the OS tell the process
that it has a console, but without actually creating the
window. As a result, when git is started from GUI, ssh
tries to ask its questions on the invisible console.
This patch uses DETACHED_PROCESS instead, which clearly
means that the process should be left without a console.
The downside is that if the process manually calls
AllocConsole, the window will appear. A similar thing
might occur if it calls another console executable.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some small Win32 specific functions will be shared by MinGW and
Cygwin compatibility layer. Place them into a separate header.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The field device is not used by Git, and putting the number of the
current device is meaningless anyway.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Our poll() emulation did not support the timeout argument. With this patch
we support it for the simple case where poll() does not need to wait on
file descriptors as well because this case amounts to a mere Sleep().
This is needed if the user sets help.autocorrect is set to a positive
value.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This reverts commit fc2ded5b08.
As we do not need the member in struct stat, we do not need to have a
custom "struct mingw_stat" anymore.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some platforms do not have st_blocks member in "struct stat"; mingw
already emulates it by rounding it up to closest 512-byte blocks (even
though it could overcount when a file has holes).
The reason to use the member is only to figure out how many kilobytes the
files occupy on-disk, so give a helper function in git-compat-util.h to
compute this value.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Without this simple fix "git gui" in the git source directory
finds the git-gui directory instead of the tcl script in /usr/bin.
Signed-off-by: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The system's default browser for displaying HTML help pages is now used
directly on Windows, instead of launching git-web--browser, which
requires a Unix shell. Avoiding MSYS' bash when possible is good
because it avoids potential path translation issues. In this case it is
not too hard to avoid launching a shell, so let's avoid it.
The Windows-specific code is implemented in compat/mingw.c to avoid
platform-specific code in the main code base. On Windows, open_html is
provided as a define. If open_html is not defined, git-web--browse is
used. This approach avoids platform-specific ifdefs by using
per-function ifdefs. The "ifndef open_html" together with the
introductory comment should sufficiently warn developers, so that they
hopefully will not break this mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Windows's struct stat does not have a st_blocks member. Since we already
have our own stat/lstat/fstat implementations, we can just as well use
a customized struct stat. This patch introduces just that, and also fills
in the st_blocks member. On the other hand, we don't provide members that
are never used.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
This is a necessary pendant to our lstat implementation: MSVCRT's
implementations of lstat and utime do some adjustments if daylight
saving time is in effect, but our lstat implementation doesn't do these
adjustments and report the correct UTC time. With this implementation
we omit the adjustments in utime() as well and always write UTC.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
This gives us a significant speedup when adding, committing and stat'ing files.
Also, since Windows doesn't really handle symlinks, we let stat just uses lstat.
We also need to replace fstat, since our implementation and the standard stat()
functions report slightly different timestamps, possibly due to timezones.
We simply report UTC in our implementation, and do our FILETIME to time_t
conversion based on the document at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/167296.
With Moe's repo structure (100K files in 100 dirs, containing 2-4 bytes)
mkdir bummer && cd bummer; for ((i=0;i<100;i++)); do
mkdir $i && pushd $i;
for ((j=0;j<1000;j++)); do echo "$j" >$j; done;
popd;
done
We get the following performance boost:
With normal lstat & stat Custom lstat/fstat
------------------------ ------------------------
Command: git init Command: git init
------------------------ ------------------------
real 0m 0.047s real 0m 0.063s
user 0m 0.031s user 0m 0.015s
sys 0m 0.000s sys 0m 0.015s
------------------------ ------------------------
Command: git add . Command: git add .
------------------------ ------------------------
real 0m19.390s real 0m12.031s 1.6x
user 0m 0.015s user 0m 0.031s
sys 0m 0.030s sys 0m 0.000s
------------------------ ------------------------
Command: git commit -a.. Command: git commit -a..
------------------------ ------------------------
real 0m30.812s real 0m16.875s 1.8x
user 0m 0.015s user 0m 0.015s
sys 0m 0.000s sys 0m 0.015s
------------------------ ------------------------
3x Command: git-status 3x Command: git-status
------------------------ ------------------------
real 0m11.860s real 0m 5.266s 2.2x
user 0m 0.015s user 0m 0.015s
sys 0m 0.015s sys 0m 0.015s
real 0m11.703s real 0m 5.234s
user 0m 0.015s user 0m 0.015s
sys 0m 0.000s sys 0m 0.000s
real 0m11.672s real 0m 5.250s
user 0m 0.031s user 0m 0.015s
sys 0m 0.000s sys 0m 0.000s
------------------------ ------------------------
Command: git commit... Command: git commit...
(single file) (single file)
------------------------ ------------------------
real 0m14.234s real 0m 7.735s 1.8x
user 0m 0.015s user 0m 0.031s
sys 0m 0.000s sys 0m 0.000s
Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo_git@storm-olsen.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
The problem with Windows's own implementation is that it tries to be
clever when a console program is invoked from a GUI application: In this
case it sometimes automatically allocates a new console window. As a
consequence, the IO channels of the spawned program are directed to the
console, but the invoking application listens on channels that are now
directed to nowhere.
In this implementation we use the lowlevel facilities of CreateProcess(),
which offers a flag to tell the system not to open a console. As a side
effect, only stdin, stdout, and stderr channels will be accessible from
C programs that are spawned. Other channels (file handles, pipe handles,
etc.) are still inherited by the spawned program, but it doesn't get
enough information to access them.
Johannes Schindelin integrated path quoting and unified the various
*execv* and *spawnv* helpers. Eric Raible suggested to also quote '{'.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
gethostbyname() is the first function that calls into the Winsock library,
and it is wrapped only to initialize the library.
socket() is wrapped for two reasons:
- Windows's socket() creates things that are like low-level file handles,
and they must be converted into file descriptors first.
- And these handles cannot be used with plain ReadFile()/WriteFile()
because they are opened for "overlapped IO". We have to use WSASocket()
to create non-overlapped IO sockets.
connect() must be wrapped because Windows's connect() expects the low-level
sockets, not file descriptors, and we must first unwrap the file descriptor
before we can pass it on to Windows's connect().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
This emulation of poll() is by far not general. It assumes that the
fds that are to be waited for are connected to pipes. The pipes are
polled in a loop until data becomes available in at least one of them.
If only a single fd is waited for, the implementation actually does
not wait at all, but assumes that a subsequent read() will block.
In order not to needlessly burn CPU time, the CPU is yielded to other
processes before the next round in the poll loop using Sleep(0). Note that
any sleep timeout greater than zero will reduce the efficiency by a
magnitude.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
On Windows, we have spawnv() variants to run a child process instead of
fork()/exec(). In order to attach pipe ends to stdin, stdout, and stderr,
we have to use this idiom:
save1 = dup(1);
dup2(pipe[1], 1);
spawnv();
dup2(save1, 1);
close(pipe[1]);
assuming that the descriptors created by pipe() are not inheritable.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
On Unix the idiom to use a pipe is as follows:
pipe(fd);
pid = fork();
if (!pid) {
dup2(fd[1], 1);
close(fd[1]);
close(fd[0]);
...
}
close(fd[1]);
i.e. the child process closes the both pipe ends after duplicating one
to the file descriptors where they are needed.
On Windows, which does not have fork(), we never have an opportunity to
(1) duplicate a pipe end in the child, (2) close unused pipe ends. Instead,
we must use this idiom:
save1 = dup(1);
pipe(fd);
dup2(fd[1], 1);
spawn(...);
dup2(save1, 1);
close(fd[1]);
i.e. save away the descriptor at the destination slot, replace by the pipe
end, spawn process, restore the saved file.
But there is a problem: Notice that the child did not only inherit the
dup2()ed descriptor, but also *both* original pipe ends. Although the one
end that was dup()ed could be closed before the spawn(), we cannot close
the other end - the child inherits it, no matter what.
The solution is to generate non-inheritable pipes. At the first glance,
this looks strange: The purpose of pipes is usually to be inherited to
child processes. But notice that in the course of actions as outlined
above, the pipe descriptor that we want to inherit to the child is
dup2()ed, and as it so happens, Windows's dup2() creates inheritable
duplicates.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
When an external git command is invoked, it can be a Bourne shell script.
This patch looks into the command file to see whether it is one.
In this case, the command line is rearranged to invoke the shell
with the proper arguments.
With this change, scripted git commands work. Command line arguments
to those scripts cannot be complex (contain spaces or double-quotes), yet.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
The timer is implemented using a thread that calls the signal handler
at regular intervals.
We also replace Windows's signal() function because we must intercept
that SIGALRM is set (which is used when a timer is canceled).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Windows's rename() is based on the MoveFile() API, which fails if the
destination exists. Here we work around the problem by using MoveFileEx().
Furthermore, the posixly correct error is returned if the destination is
a directory.
The implementation is still slightly incomplete, however, because of the
missing error code translation: We assume that the failure is due to
permissions.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
getpwuid() is implemented just enough that GIT does not issue errors.
Since the information that it returns is not very useful, users are
required to set up user.name and user.email configuration.
All uses of getpwuid() are like getpwuid(getuid()), hence, the return value
of getuid() is irrelevant and the uid parameter is not even looked at.
Side note: getpwnam() is only used to resolve '~' and '~username' paths,
which is an idiom not known on Windows, hence, we don't implement it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
The wrapper does two things:
- Requests to open /dev/null are redirected to open the nul pseudo file.
- A request to open a file that currently exists as a directory on
Windows fails with EACCES; this is changed to EISDIR.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
GIT's guts work with a forward slash as a path separators. We do not change
that. Rather we make sure that only "normalized" paths enter the depths
of the machinery.
We have to translate backslashes to forward slashes in the prefix and in
command line arguments. Fortunately, all of them are passed through
functions in setup.c.
A macro has_dos_drive_path() is defined that checks whether a path begins
with a drive letter+colon combination. This predicate is always false on
Unix. Another macro is_dir_sep() abstracts that a backslash is also a
directory separator on Windows.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
With this change GIT can be compiled and linked using MinGW. Builtins
that only read the repository such as the log family and grep already
work.
Simple stubs are provided for a number of functions that the Windows C
runtime does not offer. They will be completed in later patches.
However, a fix for the snprintf/vsnprintf replacement is applied here
to avoid buffer overflows.
Dmitry Kakurin pointed out that access(..., X_OK) would always fails on
Vista and suggested the -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS workaround.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
