credential-cache--daemon: change to the socket dir on startup

Changing to the socket path stops the daemon holding open
the directory the user was in when it was started,
preventing umount from working. We're already holding open a
socket in that directory, so there's no downside.

Thanks-to: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jon Griffiths <jon_p_griffiths@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/credential-cache--daemon.c b/credential-cache--daemon.c
index fe3779472c..6b00ee0ee6 100644
--- a/credential-cache--daemon.c
+++ b/credential-cache--daemon.c
@@ -236,6 +236,15 @@ static void init_socket_directory(const char *path)
 		if (mkdir(dir, 0700) < 0)
 			die_errno("unable to mkdir '%s'", dir);
 	}
+
+	if (chdir(dir))
+		/*
+		 * We don't actually care what our cwd is; we chdir here just to
+		 * be a friendly daemon and avoid tying up our original cwd.
+		 * If this fails, it's OK to just continue without that benefit.
+		 */
+		;
+
 	free(path_copy);
 }