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| -rw-r--r-- | connect.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -472,14 +472,18 @@ char *get_port(char *host) return NULL; } +static struct child_process no_fork; + /* - * This returns NULL if the transport protocol does not need fork(2), or a - * struct child_process object if it does. Once done, finish the connection - * with finish_connect() with the value returned from this function - * (it is safe to call finish_connect() with NULL to support the former - * case). + * This returns a dummy child_process if the transport protocol does not + * need fork(2), or a struct child_process object if it does. Once done, + * finish the connection with finish_connect() with the value returned from + * this function (it is safe to call finish_connect() with NULL to support + * the former case). * - * If it returns, the connect is successful; it just dies on errors. + * If it returns, the connect is successful; it just dies on errors (this + * will hopefully be changed in a libification effort, to return NULL when + * the connection failed). */ struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char *url_orig, const char *prog, int flags) @@ -577,7 +581,7 @@ struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char *url_orig, free(url); if (free_path) free(path); - return NULL; + return &no_fork; } conn = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*conn)); @@ -635,7 +639,7 @@ struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char *url_orig, int finish_connect(struct child_process *conn) { int code; - if (!conn) + if (!conn || conn == &no_fork) return 0; code = finish_command(conn); |