mingit includes undocumented API call to ntdll.dll!NtAssignProcessToJobObject (and a few others) due to dependency in msys2.0.dll

[veronicagg]

Our team has identified msys2.0.dll calling undocumented Windows APIs like ntdll.dll!NtAssignProcessToJobObject - which is included in mingit/Git for Windows.
Code pointer in cygwin: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Acygwin%2Fcygwin+NtAssignProcessToJobObject&type=code with a caller: cygwin/winsup/cygwin/resource.cc at 21a2c9db6952954608cdf92638b411b15e7606c6 · cygwin/cygwin

We believe the undocumented call should get replaced by the following documented API - AssignProcessToJobObject function (jobapi2.h) - Win32 apps | Microsoft Learn

Here are some other undocumented API calls also identified:

• NtOpenJobObject
• NtCreateJobObject
• NtOpenMutant
• NtQueryInformationJobObject
• NtSetInformationJobObject

Could a change be driven to update the above? We will investigate further to try to propose a change. Thanks!

[dscho]

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[dscho]

The discussion on the Cygwin mailing list stalled, mainly because the approach does not work (the handles need to be created in Cygwin's private NT directory and the Win32 API calls do not allow for that). In any case, this needs to be discussed on the Cygwin mailing list if this should go any further.