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2026-01-09mingw: implement basic `symlink()` functionality (file symlinks only)Karsten Blees
Implement `symlink()`. This implementation always creates _file_ symlinks (remember: Windows discerns between symlinks pointing to directories and those pointing to files). Support for directory symlinks will be added in a subseqeuent commit. This implementation fails with `ENOSYS` if symlinks are disabled or unsupported. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-09mingw: implement `readlink()`Karsten Blees
Implement `readlink()` by reading NTFS reparse points via the `read_reparse_point()` function that was introduced earlier to determine the length of symlink targets. Works for symlinks and directory junctions. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-12-07compat: remove mingw_mktemp()René Scharfe
Remove the mktemp(3) compatibility function now that its last caller was removed by the previous commit. Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-10compat/mingw: allow sigaction(SIGCHLD)Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
A future change will start using sigaction to setup a SIGCHLD signal handler. The current code uses signal(), which returns SIG_ERR (but doesn't seem to set errno) so instruct sigaction() to do the same. A new SA flag will be needed, so copy the one from Cygwin; note that the sigaction() implementation that is provided won't use it, so its value is otherwise irrelevant. Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-18reftable: ignore file-in-use errors when unlink(3p) fails on WindowsPatrick Steinhardt
Unlinking a file may fail on Windows systems when the file is still held open by another process. This is incompatible with POSIX semantics and by extension with Git's assumed semantics when unlinking files, which is that files can be unlinked regardless of whether they are still open or not. To counteract this incompatibility, we have some custom error handling in the `mingw_unlink()` wrapper that first retries the deletion with some delay, and then asks the user whether we should continue to retry. While this logic might be sensible in many callsites throughout Git, it is less when used in the reftable library. We only use unlink(3) there to delete tables which aren't referenced anymore, and the code is very aware of the limitations on Windows. As such, all calls to unlink(3p) don't perform any error checking at all and are fine with the call failing. Instead, the library provides the `reftable_stack_clean()` function, which Git knows to execute in git-pack-refs(1) after compacting a stack. The effect of this function is that all stale tables will eventually get deleted once they aren't kept open anymore. So while we're fine with unlink(3p) failing, the Windows-emulation of that function will still perform several sleeps and ultimately end up asking the user: $ git pack-refs Unlink of file 'C:/temp/jgittest/jgit/.git/reftable/0x000000000002-0x000000000004-50486d0e.ref' failed. Should I try again? (y/n) n Unlink of file 'C:/temp/jgittest/jgit/.git/reftable/0x000000000002-0x000000000004-50486d0e.ref' failed. Should I try again? (y/n) n Unlink of file 'C:/temp/jgittest/jgit/.git/reftable/0x000000000002-0x000000000004-50486d0e.ref' failed. Should I try again? (y/n) n It even asks multiple times, which is doubly annoying and puzzling to the user: 1. It asks when trying to delete the old file after having written the compacted stack. 2. It asks when reloading the stack, where it will try to unlink now-unreferenced tables. 3. It asks when calling `reftable_stack_clean()`, where it will try to unlink now-stale tables. Fix the issue by making it possible to disable this behaviour with a preprocessor define. As "git-compat-util.h" is only included from "system.h", and given that "system.h" is only ever included by headers and code that are internal to the reftable library, we can set that macro in this header without impacting anything else but the reftable library. Reported-by: Christian Reich <Zottelbart@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-18compat/mingw: split out POSIX-related bitsPatrick Steinhardt
Split out POSIX-related bits from "compat/mingw.h" and "compat/msvc.h". This is in preparation for splitting up "git-compat-utils.h" into a header that provides POSIX-compatibility and a header that provides common wrappers used by the Git project. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>