From f445644fd28d31a828731a618e9a9c79be89efd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff King Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:55:36 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] run-command: optimize out useless shell calls If there are no metacharacters in the program to be run, we can just skip running the shell entirely and directly exec the program. The metacharacter test is pulled verbatim from launch_editor, which already implements this optimization. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- run-command.c | 20 +++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c index b2bdcfda3d..47ced570bd 100644 --- a/run-command.c +++ b/run-command.c @@ -28,15 +28,17 @@ static const char **prepare_shell_cmd(const char **argv) if (argc < 1) die("BUG: shell command is empty"); - nargv[nargc++] = "sh"; - nargv[nargc++] = "-c"; - - if (argc < 2) - nargv[nargc++] = argv[0]; - else { - struct strbuf arg0 = STRBUF_INIT; - strbuf_addf(&arg0, "%s \"$@\"", argv[0]); - nargv[nargc++] = strbuf_detach(&arg0, NULL); + if (strcspn(argv[0], "|&;<>()$`\\\"' \t\n*?[#~=%") != strlen(argv[0])) { + nargv[nargc++] = "sh"; + nargv[nargc++] = "-c"; + + if (argc < 2) + nargv[nargc++] = argv[0]; + else { + struct strbuf arg0 = STRBUF_INIT; + strbuf_addf(&arg0, "%s \"$@\"", argv[0]); + nargv[nargc++] = strbuf_detach(&arg0, NULL); + } } for (argc = 0; argv[argc]; argc++) -- 2.39.2