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On Windows, file handles need to be marked inheritable when they need to be used as standard input/output/error handles for a newly spawned process. The problem with that, of course, is that the "inheritable" flag is global and therefore can wreak havoc with highly multi-threaded applications: other spawned processes will *also* inherit those file handles, despite having *other* input/output/error handles, and never close the former handles because they do not know about them. Let's introduce a set of environment variables (GIT_REDIRECT_STDIN and friends) that point to files, or even better, named pipes and that are used by the spawned Git process. This helps work around above-mentioned issue: those named pipes will be opened in a non-inheritable way upon startup, and no handles are passed around. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>