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run-command: use the async-signal-safe execv instead of execvp
Convert the function used to exec from 'execvp()' to 'execv()' as the (p) variant of exec isn't async-signal-safe and has the potential to call malloc during the path resolution it performs. Instead we simply do the path resolution ourselves during the preparation stage prior to forking. There also don't exist any portable (p) variants which also take in an environment to use in the exec'd process. This allows easy migration to using 'execve()' in a future patch. Also, as noted in [1], in the event of an ENOEXEC the (p) variants of exec will attempt to execute the command by interpreting it with the 'sh' utility. To maintain this functionality, if 'execv()' fails with ENOEXEC, start_command will atempt to execute the command by interpreting it with 'sh'. [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/exec.html Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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