Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 01:39:49PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> There is a slight complication on sending an empty line without any
>> termination, though ;-) The reader that calls packet_read() cannot
>> tell such a payload from a flush packet, I think.
>>
>> *That* may be something we want to document.
>
> Usually flush packets are "0000", and an empty data packet
> is "0004". Or are you talking about some kind of flush inside the
> pkt-data stream?
Neither. At the wire level there is a difference, but the callers
of most often used function in pkt-line API, packet_read(), says
while (1) {
len = packet_read();
if (!len) {
/* flush */
break;
}
... do things on the "len" bytes received ...
... and then on to the next packet ...
}
I think the least intrusive change to the caller side would be
to teach packet_read() to keep a static and let the callers do
this:
while (1) {
len = packet_read();
if (!len && packet_last_was_flush()) {
/* flush */
break;
}
... do things on the "len" bytes received ...
... and then on to the next packet ...
}
even though that looks very ugly.
len = packet_read(..., &flag);
if (!len && (flag & PKT_LAST_WAS_FLUSH)) {
/* flush */
...
might be better.
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