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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Clean stale environment pointer in finish_command()
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 07:55:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqr3x97mv4.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141111031636.GE21328@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:16:36 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> I don't think this is "unfortunately"; freeing the memory was the entire
> purpose in adding env_array. If you want to easily reuse the same
> environment in multiple commands, it is still perfectly fine to use
> "env" directly, like:
>
>   struct argv_array env = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
>   struct child_process one = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
>   struct child_process two = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
>
>   ... setup env with argv_array_push ...
>
>   one.argv = foo;
>   one.env = env.argv;
>   run_command(&one);
>
>   two.argv = bar;
>   two.env = env.argv;
>   run_command(&two);
>
>   argv_array_clear(&env);
>
> You do not get the benefit of the auto-cleanup (you have to call
> argv_array_clear yourself), but that is less bad than repeating the
> setup of "env" twice.

Yeah, the above looks like the best option, better than using a
single child_process and having to re-initialize fds and envs.

Thanks for helping.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-11 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-07 13:58 [PATCH 0/2] Support updating working trees when pushing into non-bare repos Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-07 13:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add a few more values for receive.denyCurrentBranch Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-07 18:49   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-07 18:58     ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-10 12:54     ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-10 16:00       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-12 11:13         ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-12 18:00           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-08 11:18   ` Jeff King
2014-11-08 18:48     ` brian m. carlson
2014-11-10 13:03     ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-07 13:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] Let deny.currentBranch=updateInstead ignore submodules Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-07 19:20   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-09 16:42     ` Jens Lehmann
2014-11-10 13:04       ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-10 13:01     ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-10 15:42       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-10 19:32         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-12 11:09           ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-12 17:59             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-13 10:29               ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-13 10:38                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-13 17:41                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-13 18:55                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-13 19:48                       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-13 21:06                         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-14  7:49                           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-02  3:24                             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-02  3:25                               ` [PATCH 2/2] receive-pack: support push-to-checkout hook Junio C Hamano
2014-12-02  8:47                                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-12-02 13:03                                   ` Michael J Gruber
2014-12-02 13:25                                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-12-02 16:39                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-02 16:45                                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-12-02 17:00                                       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-02 17:12                                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-12-02 17:19                                           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-13 17:41                   ` [PATCH 2/2] Let deny.currentBranch=updateInstead ignore submodules Junio C Hamano
2014-11-12 11:06         ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-10 14:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Support updating working trees when pushing into non-bare repos Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-13 11:03   ` [PATCH v3 0/1] " Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-13 11:03     ` [PATCH v3 1/1] Add another option for receive.denyCurrentBranch Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-13 17:51       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-13 19:21         ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-13 17:47     ` [PATCH v3 0/1] Support updating working trees when pushing into non-bare repos Junio C Hamano
2014-11-13 19:11       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-13 19:18       ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-26 20:21     ` [PATCH v4] " Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-26 20:21       ` [PATCH v4] Add another option for receive.denyCurrentBranch Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-26 21:02         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-26 22:44       ` [PATCH v5] Support updating working trees when pushing into non-bare repos Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-26 22:44         ` [PATCH v5] Add another option for receive.denyCurrentBranch Johannes Schindelin
2014-12-01  3:18           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-01  7:44             ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-12-01 23:49           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-02  0:51             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-02  8:21               ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-12-02 16:20                 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-02 16:51                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-12-02 17:23                   ` Junio C Hamano
     [not found] ` <cover.1415630072.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2014-11-10 14:38   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Clean stale environment pointer in finish_command() Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-10 14:41     ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-11  3:16       ` Jeff King
2014-11-11 15:55         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-11-12 10:45           ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-11-12 10:52             ` Jeff King
2014-11-12 10:59               ` Jeff King
2014-11-12 16:17                 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-10 21:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-11  3:11       ` Jeff King
2014-11-10 14:38   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Add a few more options for receive.denyCurrentBranch Johannes Schindelin

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