| commit | 940283101ce87250cf31a592730386f5061e1286 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> | Tue Apr 25 16:47:00 2017 -0700 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Tue Apr 25 23:17:36 2017 -0700 |
| tree | 8959b34793de45f243d177cbec99ad2c3a4df7a4 | |
| parent | 38124a40e480c1717326b7bc27bcbca758de908e [diff] |
run-command: restrict PATH search to executable files In some situations run-command will incorrectly try (and fail) to execute a directory instead of an executable file. This was observed by having a directory called "ssh" in $PATH before the real ssh and trying to use ssh protoccol, reslting in the following: $ git ls-remote ssh://url fatal: cannot exec 'ssh': Permission denied It ends up being worse and run-command will even try to execute a non-executable file if it preceeds the executable version of a file on the PATH. For example, if PATH=~/bin1:~/bin2:~/bin3 and there exists a directory 'git-hello' in 'bin1', a non-executable file 'git-hello' in bin2 and an executable file 'git-hello' (which prints "Hello World!") in bin3 the following will occur: $ git hello fatal: cannot exec 'git-hello': Permission denied This is due to only checking 'access()' when locating an executable in PATH, which doesn't distinguish between files and directories. Instead use 'is_executable()' which check that the path is to a regular, executable file. Now run-command won't try to execute the directory or non-executable file 'git-hello': $ git hello Hello World! which matches what execvp(3) would have done when asked to execute git-hello with such a $PATH. Reported-by: Brian Hatfield <bhatfield@google.com> Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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