Re: [PATCH 1/2] prefer xwrite instead of write

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>>> Shouldn't this use write_in_full() to avoid a silently truncated result? (*)
>>
>> Meaning this?  If so, I think it makes sense.
> [...]
>> -	if (xwrite(fd, out.buf, out.len) < 0)
>> +	if (write_in_full(fd, out.buf, out.len) != out.len)
>
> Yes.  Either '< 0' or '!= out.len' would work fine here, since
> write_in_full is defined to always either write the full 'count'
> bytes or return an error.

An unrelated tangent but we may want to fix majority of callers that
do not seem to know that ;-)

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