Re: [PATCH 2/4] sideband: reverse its dependency on pkt-line

[Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>]

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > Lack of corresponding comment bothers readers.  In all of
> > REMOTE_ERROR, PROGRESS and PROTOCOL_ERROR cases, the other helper
> > stuffs the message in outbuf in "switch (band) { ... }" and writes
> > it out with xwrite(2, outbuf.buf, outbuf.len) [*1*], so I can see
> > there is no need for us to write anything out here.  Perhaps
> >
> > 		case SIDEBAND_FLUSH:
> > 		default: /* errors: message already written */
> > 			return retval;
> >
> > or something to clarify?
> 
> Forgot a footnote for *1* above.  I was wondering if xwrite is what
> we really want, rather than write_in_full().

There is an existing comment explaining this:

	 * The output is accumulated in a buffer and
	 * each line is printed to stderr using
	 * write(2) to ensure inter-process atomicity.

which seems reasonable to me (I know that write(2) does not guarantee to
write everything, but write_in_full() does not guarantee atomicity, as
far as I know).