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setup: make sure git_dir path is in a permanent buffer, getenv(3) case
getenv(3) returns not-permanent buffer which may be changed by e.g. putenv(3) call (*). In practice I've noticed this when trying to do `git commit -m abc` inside msysgit under wine, getting $ git commit -m abc fatal: could not open 'DIR=.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG': No such file or directory ^^^^ (notice introduced 'DIR=' artifact.) The problem was showing itself only with -m option, and actually, as debugging showed, originally git_dir = getenv("GIT_DIR") returned pointer to "GIT_DIR=.git\0" ^ git_dir , we stored it in git_dir, than, after processing -m git-commit option, we did setenv("GIT_EDITOR", ":") which as (*) says changed environment variables memory layout - something like this "...\0GIT_DIR=.git\0" ^ git_dir and oops - we got wrong git_dir. Avoid that by strdupping getenv("GIT_DIR") result like we did in 06f354 (setup: make sure git dir path is in a permanent buffer). Unfortunately this also shows that other getenv usage inside git needs auditing... (*) from man 3 getenv: The implementation of getenv() is not required to be reentrant. The string pointed to by the return value of getenv() may be statically allocated, and can be modified by a subsequent call to getenv(), putenv(3), setenv(3), or unsetenv(3). Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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