Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > A bit cleaner: > > #ifndef(MAX_IO_SIZE) > # define MAX_IO_SIZE_DEFAULT (8*1024*1024) > # if defined(SSIZE_MAX) && (SSIZE_MAX < MAX_IO_SIZE_DEFAULT) > # define MAX_IO_SIZE SSIZE_MAX > # else > # define MAX_IO_SIZE MAX_IO_SIZE_DEFAULT > # endif > #endif OK, then let's do this. -- >8 -- Subject: xread/xwrite: clip MAX_IO_SIZE to SSIZE_MAX Since 0b6806b9 (xread, xwrite: limit size of IO to 8MB, 2013-08-20), we chomp our calls to read(2) and write(2) into chunks of MAX_IO_SIZE bytes (8 MiB), because a large IO results in a bad latency when the program needs to be killed. This also brought our IO below SSIZE_MAX, which is a limit POSIX allows read(2) and write(2) to fail when the IO size exceeds it, for OS X, where a problem was originally reported. However, there are other systems that define SSIZE_MAX smaller than our default X-<. Make sure we clip our calls to this as well. Reported-by: Joachim Schmitz <jojo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- wrapper.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c index 007ec0d..50e6697 100644 --- a/wrapper.c +++ b/wrapper.c @@ -172,8 +172,21 @@ void *xcalloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size) * 64-bit is buggy, returning EINVAL if len >= INT_MAX; and even in * the absence of bugs, large chunks can result in bad latencies when * you decide to kill the process. + * + * We pick 8 MiB as our default, but if the platform defines SSIZE_MAX + * that is smaller than that, clip it to SSIZE_MAX, as a call to + * read(2) or write(2) larger than taht is allowed to fail. As the last + * resort, we allow a port to pass via CFLAGS e.g. "-DMAX_IO_SIZE=value" + * to override this, if the definition of SSIZE_MAX platform is broken. */ -#define MAX_IO_SIZE (8*1024*1024) +#ifndef(MAX_IO_SIZE) +# define MAX_IO_SIZE_DEFAULT (8*1024*1024) +# if defined(SSIZE_MAX) && (SSIZE_MAX < MAX_IO_SIZE_DEFAULT) +# define MAX_IO_SIZE SSIZE_MAX +# else +# define MAX_IO_SIZE MAX_IO_SIZE_DEFAULT +# endif +#endif /* * xread() is the same a read(), but it automatically restarts read() -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html