Re: [PATCH v2] upload-pack: use buffered I/O to talk to rev-list

["René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>]

Am 13.08.20 um 07:17 schrieb Christian Couder:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 6:54 PM René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> wrote:
>
>> -       close(cmd->in);
>> +       if (ferror(cmd_in) || fflush(cmd_in))
>> +               goto error;
>> +       fclose(cmd_in);
>>         cmd->in = -1;
>
> I wonder if setting cmd->in to -1 is still useful...

The patch doesn't change its usefulness.  It probably was not necessary
to begin with.

>
>>         sigchain_pop(SIGPIPE);
>>

The next line right here (not shown in the diff) returns 0.

>> @@ -660,8 +658,8 @@ static int do_reachable_revlist(struct child_process *cmd,
>>  error:
>>         sigchain_pop(SIGPIPE);
>>
>> -       if (cmd->in >= 0)
>> -               close(cmd->in);
>> +       if (cmd_in)
>> +               fclose(cmd_in);
>
> ...as we don't check cmd->in anymore at the end of the function, but
> we now check cmd_in instead. So should cmd_in have been set to -1
> instead of cmd->in?

This error handler is not reached from the place that sets cmd->in back
to -1.  It can be reached from a place where cmd_in is still NULL, so
this check is necessary and setting cmd_in to NULL above is not needed.

René