Hi René, On Sat, 20 May 2017, René Scharfe wrote:
> On Windows the environment variable PATH contains a semicolon-separated > list of directories to search for, in order, when looking for the > location of a binary to run. get_path_split() parses it and returns an > array of string copies, which is iterated by path_lookup(), which in > turn passes each entry to lookup_prog(). > > Change lookup_prog() to take the directory name as a length-limited > string instead of as a NUL-terminated one and parse PATH directly in > path_lookup(). This avoids memory allocations, simplifying the code. > > Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j...@kdbg.org> > Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l....@web.de> ACK. > Rebased against Junio's master, fixed string overrun. Can hold and > resubmit in a few months if it gets in the way right now. I am in favor of getting this in as soon as possible. Ciao, Dscho
