Merge branch 'jk/long-error-messages'

The codepath to produce error messages had a hard-coded limit to
the size of the message, primarily to avoid memory allocation while
calling die().

* jk/long-error-messages:
  vreportf: avoid intermediate buffer
  vreportf: report to arbitrary filehandles

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
index 28e1d55cb9..3277cf797e 100644
--- a/run-command.c
+++ b/run-command.c
@@ -200,7 +200,6 @@ static int execv_shell_cmd(const char **argv)
 #endif
 
 #ifndef GIT_WINDOWS_NATIVE
-static int child_err = 2;
 static int child_notifier = -1;
 
 static void notify_parent(void)
@@ -212,17 +211,6 @@ static void notify_parent(void)
 	 */
 	xwrite(child_notifier, "", 1);
 }
-
-static NORETURN void die_child(const char *err, va_list params)
-{
-	vwritef(child_err, "fatal: ", err, params);
-	exit(128);
-}
-
-static void error_child(const char *err, va_list params)
-{
-	vwritef(child_err, "error: ", err, params);
-}
 #endif
 
 static inline void set_cloexec(int fd)
@@ -362,11 +350,10 @@ fail_pipe:
 		 * in subsequent call paths use the parent's stderr.
 		 */
 		if (cmd->no_stderr || need_err) {
-			child_err = dup(2);
+			int child_err = dup(2);
 			set_cloexec(child_err);
+			set_error_handle(fdopen(child_err, "w"));
 		}
-		set_die_routine(die_child);
-		set_error_routine(error_child);
 
 		close(notify_pipe[0]);
 		set_cloexec(notify_pipe[1]);