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-rw-r--r--connect.c13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c
index 49251f943..c55a20a4a 100644
--- a/connect.c
+++ b/connect.c
@@ -602,9 +602,15 @@ static void git_proxy_connect(int fd[2], char *host)
#define MAX_CMD_LEN 1024
/*
- * Yeah, yeah, fixme. Need to pass in the heads etc.
+ * This returns 0 if the transport protocol does not need fork(2),
+ * or a process id 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 0 to support the former
+ * case).
+ *
+ * Does not return a negative value on error; it just dies.
*/
-int git_connect(int fd[2], char *url, const char *prog)
+pid_t git_connect(int fd[2], char *url, const char *prog)
{
char *host, *path = url;
char *end;
@@ -748,6 +754,9 @@ int git_connect(int fd[2], char *url, const char *prog)
int finish_connect(pid_t pid)
{
+ if (pid == 0)
+ return 0;
+
while (waitpid(pid, NULL, 0) < 0) {
if (errno != EINTR)
return -1;