Nedmalloc's source code has a cute #define construct to avoid inserting
an if() statement, because that might interact badly with enclosing if()
statements. However, GCC > 4 complains with a "warning: value computed
is not used". So we cast the result to "void".
GCC also does not understand the Visual C++ specific pragmas, so we need
to disable them for MinGW.
We need to include malloc.h on Windows even if we happen to compile the
stuff as a MinGW program. Otherwise the function declaration of alloca()
is missing.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The standard allocator on Windows is pretty bad prior
to Windows Vista, and nedmalloc is better than the
modified dlmalloc provided with newer versions of the
MinGW libc.
NedMalloc stats in Git
----------------------
All results are the best result out of 3 runs. The
benchmarks have been done on different hardware, so
the repack times are not comparable.
These benchmarks are all based on 'git repack -adf'
on the Linux kernel.
XP
-----------------------------------------------
MinGW Threads Total Time Speed
-----------------------------------------------
3.4.2 (1T) 00:12:28.422
3.4.2 + nedmalloc (1T) 00:07:25.437 1.68x
3.4.5 (1T) 00:12:20.718
3.4.5 + nedmalloc (1T) 00:07:24.809 1.67x
4.3.3-tdm (1T) 00:12:01.843
4.3.3-tdm + nedmalloc (1T) 00:07:16.468 1.65x
4.3.3-tdm (2T) 00:07:35.062
4.3.3-tdm + nedmalloc (2T) 00:04:57.874 1.54x
Vista
-----------------------------------------------
MinGW Threads Total Time Speed
-----------------------------------------------
4.3.3-tdm (1T) 00:07:40.844
4.3.3-tdm + nedmalloc (1T) 00:07:17.548 1.05x
4.3.3-tdm (2T) 00:05:33.746
4.3.3-tdm + nedmalloc (2T) 00:05:27.334 1.02x
Mac Mini
-----------------------------------------------
GCC Threads Total Time Speed
-----------------------------------------------
i686-darwin9-4.0.1 (2T) 00:09:57.346
i686-darwin9-4.0.1+ned (2T) 00:08:51.072 1.12x
Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The original readdir implementation was fast, but didn't
support the d_type. This means that git would do additional
lstats for each entry, to figure out if the entry was a
directory or not. This unneedingly slowed down many
operations, since Windows API provides this information
directly when walking the directories.
By running this implementation on Moe's repo structure:
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 see the following speedups:
git add .
-------------------
old: 00:00:23(.087)
new: 00:00:21(.512) 1.07x
git status
-------------------
old: 00:00:03(.306)
new: 00:00:01(.684) 1.96x
git clean -dxf
-------------------
old: 00:00:01(.918)
new: 00:00:00(.295) 6.50x
Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
conio.h provides the declaration.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function FillConsoleOutputCharacterA() was pretty content in XP to take a NULL
pointer if we did not want to store the number of written columns. In Windows 7,
it crashes, but only when called from within Git Bash, not from within cmd.exe.
Go figure.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some systems such as Windows lack libgen.h so provide a
basename() implementation for cross-platform use.
This introduces the NO_LIBGEN_H construct to the Makefile
and autoconf scripts.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
mkstemps() is a BSD extension so provide an implementation
for cross-platform use.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> (Windows)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We need getpass() to activate curl on MinGW. Although the default
Makefile currently has 'NO_CURL = YesPlease', msysgit releases do
provide curl support, so getpass() is used.
[spr: - edited commit message.
- squashed commit that provides getpass() declaration.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git's source code expects waitpid() to return a signed int status.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
\r is common on Windows, so we should handle it gracefully.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Essentially; s/type* /type */ as per the coding guidelines.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A few more fixes on top of the automatic spell checker generated ones.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
Add USE_WIN32_MMAP which triggers the use of windows' native
file memory mapping functionality in git_mmap()/git_munmap() functions.
As git functions currently use mmap with MAP_PRIVATE set only, this
implementation supports only that mode for now.
On Windows, offsets for memory mapped files need to match the allocation
granularity. Take this into account when calculating the packed git-
windowsize and file offsets. At the moment, the only function which makes
use of offsets in conjunction with mmap is use_pack() in sha1-file.c.
Git fast-import's code path tries to map a portion of the temporary
packfile that exceeds the current filesize, i.e. offset+length is
greater than the filesize. The NO_MMAP code worked with that since pread()
just reads the file content until EOF and returns gracefully, while
MapViewOfFile() aborts the mapping and returns 'Access Denied'.
Working around that by determining the filesize and adjusting the length
parameter.
Signed-off-by: Janos Laube <janos.dev@gmail.com>
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>
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>
When overriding the identifier "stat" so that "struct stat" will be
substituted with "struct _stati64" everywhere, I tried to fix the calls
to the _function_ stat(), too, but I forgot to change the earlier
attempt "stat64" to "_stati64" there.
So, the stat() calls were overridden by calls to _stati64() instead.
Unfortunately, there is a function _stati64() so that I missed that
calls to stat() were not actually overridden by calls to mingw_lstat(),
but t4200-rerere.sh showed the error.
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>
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>
When memmem() was imported from glibc 2.2 into compat/, an optimization
was dropped in the process, in order to make the code smaller and simpler.
It was OK because memmem() wasn't used in performance-critical code. Now
the situation has changed and we can benefit from this optimization.
The trick is to avoid calling memcmp() if the first character of the needle
already doesn't match. Checking one character directly is much cheaper
than the function call overhead. We keep the first character of the needle
in the variable named point and the rest in the one named tail.
The following commands were run in a Linux kernel repository and timed, the
best of five results is shown:
$ STRING='Ensure that the real time constraints are schedulable.'
$ git log -S"$STRING" HEAD -- kernel/sched.c >/dev/null
On Windows Vista x64, before:
real 0m8.470s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
And after the patch:
real 0m1.887s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We had defined some SIG_FOO macros that appear in the code, but that are
not supported on Windows, in order to make the code compile. But a
subsequent change will assert that a signal number is non-zero. We now
use the signal numbers that are commonly used on POSIX systems.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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>
The original patch that lead to an earlier commit adbc0b6 (cygwin: Use
native Win32 API for stat, 2008-09-30) did not call git_default_config()
and it was a good thing. The lazy config reading when lstat/stat is
called for the first time to find out if core.filemode is set can happen
anytime in the calling program. If it happens after the calling program
parsed the configuration file to prime its default parameter settings and
processed its command line parameters to tweak them, this will overwrite
the values set by the program with the values read from the config file.
This essentially reverts the code to the version as submitted by Mark,
with a bit more comments to clarify why we do not fall back on the default
configuration parser from git_cygwin_config().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cygwin's POSIX emulation allows use of core.filemode true, unlike native
Window's implementation of stat / lstat, and Cygwin/git users who have
configured core.filemode true in various repositories will be very
unpleasantly surprised to find that git is no longer honoring that option.
So, this patch forces use of Cygwin's stat functions if core.filemode is
set true, regardless of any other considerations.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
lstat/stat functions in Cygwin are very slow, because they try to emulate
some *nix things that Git does not actually need. This patch adds Win32
specific implementation of these functions for Cygwin.
This implementation handles most situation directly but in some rare cases
it falls back on the implementation provided for Cygwin. This is necessary
for two reasons:
- Cygwin has its own file hierarchy, so absolute paths used in Cygwin is
not suitable to be used Win32 API. cygwin_conv_to_win32_path can not be
used because it automatically dereference Cygwin symbol links, also it
causes extra syscall. Fortunately Git rarely use absolute paths, so we
always use Cygwin implementation for absolute paths.
- Support of symbol links. Cygwin stores symbol links as ordinary using
one of two possible formats. Therefore, the fast implementation falls
back to Cygwin functions if it detects potential use of symbol links.
The speed of this implementation should be the same as mingw_lstat for
common cases, but it is considerable slower when the specified file name
does not exist.
Despite all efforts to make the fast implementation as robust as possible,
it may not work well for some very rare situations. I am aware only one
situation: use Cygwin mount to bind unrelated paths inside repository
together. Therefore, the core.ignoreCygwinFSTricks configuration option is
provided, which controls whether native or Cygwin version of stat is used.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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>
The standard libc regex library on OSX does not support alternation
in POSIX Basic Regular Expression mode. This breaks the diff.funcname
functionality on OSX.
To fix this, we use the GNU regex library which is already present in
the compat/ diretory for the MinGW port. However, simply adding compat/
to the COMPAT_CFLAGS variable causes a conflict between the system
fnmatch.h and the one present in compat/. To remedy this, move the
regex and fnmatch functionality to their own subdirectories in compat/
so they can be included seperately.
Signed-off-by: Arjen Laarhoven <arjen@yaph.org>
Tested-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk> (AIX)
Tested-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> (MinGW)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some platforms provide a horribly broken snprintf. More broken than the
platforms that return -1 when there is too little space in the target buffer
for the formatted string. Some platforms provide an snprintf which _always_
returns the number of characters transmitted to the buffer, regardless of
whether there was enough space or not.
IRIX 6.5 is such a platform. IRIX does have a working snprintf(), but it
is only provided when _NO_XOPEN5 evaluates to zero, and this only happens
if _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined, but definition of _XOPEN_SOURCE prevents
inclusion of many other common functions and defines. So it must be avoided.
Work around these horribly broken snprintf implementations by detecting an
snprintf call which results in the number of transmitted characters exactly
equal to the length of our buffer and retrying with a larger buffer just to
be safe.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
With MinGW's
gcc.exe (GCC) 3.4.5 (mingw special)
GNU ld version 2.17.50 20060824
the old define caused link errors:
git.o: In function `main':
C:/msysgit/git/git.c:500: undefined reference to `mingw_main'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
The modified define works.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the exec-path on Windows is derived from the program invocation path,
we must ensure that argv[0] always has a path. Unfortunately, if a program
is invoked from CMD, argv[0] has no path. But on the other hand, the
C runtime offers a global variable, _pgmptr, that always has the full path
to the program. We hook into main() with a preprocessor macro, where we
replace argv[0].
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds only the minimum necessary to keep git pull/merge's diffstat from
wrapping. Notably absent is support for the K (erase) operation, and support
for POSIX write.
Signed-off-by: Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
On Windows, ntohl() returns unsigned long. On Unix it returns
uint32_t. This makes choosing a suitable printf format string
hard.
This commit introduces a mingw specific helper function
git_ntohl() that casts to unsigned int before returning. This
makes gcc's printf format check happy. It should be safe because
we expect ntohl to use 32-bit numbers.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
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>
Johannes Schindelin