mingw: support spawning programs containing spaces in their names

On some older Windows versions (e.g. Windows 7), the CreateProcessW()
function does not really support spaces in its first argument,
lpApplicationName. But it supports passing NULL as lpApplicationName,
which makes it figure out the application from the (possibly quoted)
first argument of lpCommandLine.

Let's use that trick (if we are certain that the first argument matches
the executable's path) to support launching programs whose path contains
spaces.

We will abuse the test-fake-ssh.exe helper to verify that this works and
does not regress.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/692

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index 9b6d2400e1107fa2a65f6ecd7d067809115930b9..6d7fc07a487a0ffb023db5b45ba9eaa0b3c36bc9 100644 (file)
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -1437,7 +1437,9 @@ static pid_t mingw_spawnve_fd(const char *cmd, const char **argv, char **deltaen
        si.hStdOutput = winansi_get_osfhandle(fhout);
        si.hStdError = winansi_get_osfhandle(fherr);
 
-       if (xutftowcs_path(wcmd, cmd) < 0)
+       if (*argv && !strcmp(cmd, *argv))
+               wcmd[0] = L'\0';
+       else if (xutftowcs_path(wcmd, cmd) < 0)
                return -1;
        if (dir && xutftowcs_path(wdir, dir) < 0)
                return -1;
@@ -1466,8 +1468,8 @@ static pid_t mingw_spawnve_fd(const char *cmd, const char **argv, char **deltaen
        wenvblk = make_environment_block(deltaenv);
 
        memset(&pi, 0, sizeof(pi));
-       ret = CreateProcessW(wcmd, wargs, NULL, NULL, TRUE, flags,
-               wenvblk, dir ? wdir : NULL, &si, &pi);
+       ret = CreateProcessW(*wcmd ? wcmd : NULL, wargs, NULL, NULL, TRUE,
+               flags, wenvblk, dir ? wdir : NULL, &si, &pi);
 
        free(wenvblk);
        free(wargs);

diff --git a/t/t0061-run-command.sh b/t/t0061-run-command.sh
index ebc49561acc08e916b2ab78cd84e6729c65f5803..015fac8b5d077165c7f9ac8090fd4e2ac12a7cb3 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t0061-run-command.sh
+++ b/t/t0061-run-command.sh
@@ -210,4 +210,10 @@ test_expect_success MINGW 'verify curlies are quoted properly' '
        test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success MINGW 'can spawn with argv[0] containing spaces' '
+       cp "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/t/helper/test-fake-ssh$X" ./ &&
+       test_must_fail "$PWD/test-fake-ssh$X" 2>err &&
+       grep TRASH_DIRECTORY err
+'
+
 test_done