git wrapper: more careful argument stuffing

 - Use stderr for error output
 - Build git_command more careful
 - ENOENT is good enough for check of failed exec to show usage, no
   access() check needed

[jc: Originally from Alex Riesen with inputs from Sven
 Verdoolaege mixed in.]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 0b10b6e781fdf76a3822b15cfa304352aee812cc..878c359704dca8591755a68ff5a826503c017b3e 100644 (file)
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -283,16 +283,21 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
        len = strlen(git_command);
        prepend_to_path(git_command, len);
 
-       strncat(&git_command[len], "/git-", sizeof(git_command) - len);
-       len += 5;
-       strncat(&git_command[len], argv[i], sizeof(git_command) - len);
-
-       if (access(git_command, X_OK))
-               usage(exec_path, "'%s' is not a git-command", argv[i]);
+       len += snprintf(git_command + len, sizeof(git_command) - len,
+                       "/git-%s", argv[i]);
+       if (sizeof(git_command) <= len) {
+               fprintf(stderr, "git: command name given is too long (%d)\n", len);
+               exit(1);
+       }
 
        /* execve() can only ever return if it fails */
        execve(git_command, &argv[i], envp);
-       printf("Failed to run command '%s': %s\n", git_command, strerror(errno));
+
+       if (errno == ENOENT)
+               usage(exec_path, "'%s' is not a git-command", argv[i]);
+
+       fprintf(stderr, "Failed to run command '%s': %s\n",
+               git_command, strerror(errno));
 
        return 1;
 }