When restarting Zed, I hit a bug where all Git operations were hung. I realized that there was a hanging git process running `git cat-file --batch-check=%(objectname)`. The process was waiting on stdin. This was surprising, because [the code](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/e2bbdb19b6da2ee157ca1d36100acde2134a1663/crates/git/src/repository.rs#L1665-L1709) that spawns this process explicitly closes the pipe that is attached to the process's stdin after writing a list of ref names. Using Claude, I found that this could be caused by that pipe file descriptor being cloned due to file descriptor inheritance when another child process is `exec`'d while that stdin pipe is open. The fix is to enhance our Darwin process spawning layer to set the close-on-exec flag for the pipe file descriptors, so that they are not inherited by child processes spawned using code paths that don't set `POSIX_SPAWN_CLOEXEC_DEFAULT`. Release Notes: - Fixed a bug on macOS where Git operations could be blocked depending on the timing of spawning child processes.
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