start_command(), .in/.out/.err = -1: Callers must close the file descriptor

By setting .in, .out, or .err members of struct child_process to -1, the
callers of start_command() can request that a pipe is allocated that talks
to the child process and one end is returned by replacing -1 with the
file descriptor.

Previously, a flag was set (for .in and .out, but not .err) to signal
finish_command() to close the pipe end that start_command() had handed out,
so it was optional for callers to close the pipe, and many already do so.
Now we make it mandatory to close the pipe.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/builtin-tag.c b/builtin-tag.c
index 716b4fff3..28c36fdcd 100644
--- a/builtin-tag.c
+++ b/builtin-tag.c
@@ -226,12 +226,13 @@ static int do_sign(struct strbuf *buffer)
 
 	if (write_in_full(gpg.in, buffer->buf, buffer->len) != buffer->len) {
 		close(gpg.in);
+		close(gpg.out);
 		finish_command(&gpg);
 		return error("gpg did not accept the tag data");
 	}
 	close(gpg.in);
-	gpg.close_in = 0;
 	len = strbuf_read(buffer, gpg.out, 1024);
+	close(gpg.out);
 
 	if (finish_command(&gpg) || !len || len < 0)
 		return error("gpg failed to sign the tag");