From: "Matthias Aßhauer via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
"Matthias Aßhauer" <mha1993@live.de>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] mingw_open_existing: handle directories better
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2025 21:25:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0995ecadaff56d2ff44c965763800ec892490bad.1754256318.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.1948.git.1754256318.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
From: =?UTF-8?q?Matthias=20A=C3=9Fhauer?= <mha1993@live.de>
CreateFileW() requires FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS to create a directory
handle [1] and errors out with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED without this flag.
Fall back to accessing Directory handles this way.
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-createfilew#directories
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5068
Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
---
compat/mingw.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index 5d69ae32f4b9..2dd5cbcaee0d 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -588,13 +588,24 @@ static int mingw_open_existing(const wchar_t *filename, int oflags, ...)
&security_attributes, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);
if (handle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
DWORD err = GetLastError();
+ if (err == ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED) {
+ DWORD attrs = GetFileAttributesW(filename);
+ if (attrs != INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES && (attrs & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY))
+ handle = CreateFileW(filename, access,
+ FILE_SHARE_WRITE | FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_DELETE,
+ &security_attributes, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL| FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS, NULL);
+ }
- /* See `mingw_open_append()` for why we have this conversion. */
- if (err == ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER)
- err = ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND;
+ if (handle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
+ err = GetLastError();
- errno = err_win_to_posix(err);
- return -1;
+ /* See `mingw_open_append()` for why we have this conversion. */
+ if (err == ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER)
+ err = ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND;
+
+ errno = err_win_to_posix(err);
+ return -1;
+ }
}
fd = _open_osfhandle((intptr_t)handle, oflags | O_BINARY);
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-03 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-03 21:25 [PATCH 0/4] mingw: rename and open fixes Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2025-08-03 21:25 ` Matthias Aßhauer via GitGitGadget [this message]
2025-08-03 21:25 ` [PATCH 2/4] mingw: drop Windows 7-specific work-around Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2025-08-04 8:54 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2025-08-03 21:25 ` [PATCH 3/4] mingw_rename: support ReFS on Windows 2022 Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2025-08-03 21:25 ` [PATCH 4/4] mingw: support Windows Server 2016 again Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2025-08-04 1:29 ` [PATCH 0/4] mingw: rename and open fixes Junio C Hamano
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