Merge branch 'js/run-command-updates'

* js/run-command-updates:
  api-run-command.txt: describe error behavior of run_command functions
  run-command.c: squelch a "use before assignment" warning
  receive-pack: remove unnecessary run_status report
  run_command: report failure to execute the program, but optionally don't
  run_command: encode deadly signal number in the return value
  run_command: report system call errors instead of returning error codes
  run_command: return exit code as positive value
  MinGW: simplify waitpid() emulation macros
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Junio C Hamano
2009-08-10 22:14:57 -07:00
11 changed files with 104 additions and 123 deletions

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@ -35,12 +35,32 @@ Functions
Convenience functions that encapsulate a sequence of
start_command() followed by finish_command(). The argument argv
specifies the program and its arguments. The argument opt is zero
or more of the flags `RUN_COMMAND_NO_STDIN`, `RUN_GIT_CMD`, or
`RUN_COMMAND_STDOUT_TO_STDERR` that correspond to the members
.no_stdin, .git_cmd, .stdout_to_stderr of `struct child_process`.
or more of the flags `RUN_COMMAND_NO_STDIN`, `RUN_GIT_CMD`,
`RUN_COMMAND_STDOUT_TO_STDERR`, or `RUN_SILENT_EXEC_FAILURE`
that correspond to the members .no_stdin, .git_cmd,
.stdout_to_stderr, .silent_exec_failure of `struct child_process`.
The argument dir corresponds the member .dir. The argument env
corresponds to the member .env.
The functions above do the following:
. If a system call failed, errno is set and -1 is returned. A diagnostic
is printed.
. If the program was not found, then -1 is returned and errno is set to
ENOENT; a diagnostic is printed only if .silent_exec_failure is 0.
. Otherwise, the program is run. If it terminates regularly, its exit
code is returned. No diagnistic is printed, even if the exit code is
non-zero.
. If the program terminated due to a signal, then the return value is the
signal number - 128, ie. it is negative and so indicates an unusual
condition; a diagnostic is printed. This return value can be passed to
exit(2), which will report the same code to the parent process that a
POSIX shell's $? would report for a program that died from the signal.
`start_async`::
Run a function asynchronously. Takes a pointer to a `struct
@ -143,6 +163,11 @@ string pointers (NULL terminated) in .env:
To specify a new initial working directory for the sub-process,
specify it in the .dir member.
If the program cannot be found, the functions return -1 and set
errno to ENOENT. Normally, an error message is printed, but if
.silent_exec_failure is set to 1, no message is printed for this
special error condition.
* `struct async`