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Windows: Make the pager work.

Since we have neither fork() nor exec(), we have to spawn the pager and
feed it with the program's output.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
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Johannes Sixt 17 years ago
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      pager.c

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pager.c

@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
#include "cache.h" #include "cache.h"


/* /*
* This is split up from the rest of git so that we might do * This is split up from the rest of git so that we can do
* something different on Windows, for example. * something different on Windows.
*/ */


static int spawned_pager; static int spawned_pager;


#ifndef __MINGW32__
static void run_pager(const char *pager) static void run_pager(const char *pager)
{ {
/* /*
@ -22,11 +23,31 @@ static void run_pager(const char *pager)
execlp(pager, pager, NULL); execlp(pager, pager, NULL);
execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", pager, NULL); execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", pager, NULL);
} }
#else
#include "run-command.h"

static const char *pager_argv[] = { "sh", "-c", NULL, NULL };
static struct child_process pager_process = {
.argv = pager_argv,
.in = -1
};
static void wait_for_pager(void)
{
fflush(stdout);
fflush(stderr);
/* signal EOF to pager */
close(1);
close(2);
finish_command(&pager_process);
}
#endif


void setup_pager(void) void setup_pager(void)
{ {
#ifndef __MINGW32__
pid_t pid; pid_t pid;
int fd[2]; int fd[2];
#endif
const char *pager = getenv("GIT_PAGER"); const char *pager = getenv("GIT_PAGER");


if (!isatty(1)) if (!isatty(1))
@ -45,6 +66,7 @@ void setup_pager(void)


spawned_pager = 1; /* means we are emitting to terminal */ spawned_pager = 1; /* means we are emitting to terminal */


#ifndef __MINGW32__
if (pipe(fd) < 0) if (pipe(fd) < 0)
return; return;
pid = fork(); pid = fork();
@ -72,6 +94,20 @@ void setup_pager(void)
run_pager(pager); run_pager(pager);
die("unable to execute pager '%s'", pager); die("unable to execute pager '%s'", pager);
exit(255); exit(255);
#else
/* spawn the pager */
pager_argv[2] = pager;
if (start_command(&pager_process))
return;

/* original process continues, but writes to the pipe */
dup2(pager_process.in, 1);
dup2(pager_process.in, 2);
close(pager_process.in);

/* this makes sure that the parent terminates after the pager */
atexit(wait_for_pager);
#endif
} }


int pager_in_use(void) int pager_in_use(void)

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