A common usage pattern of fopen() is to check if it succeeded, and die() if it failed: FILE *fp = fopen(path, "w"); if (!fp) die_errno(_("could not open '%s' for writing"), path); Implement a wrapper function xfopen() for the above, so that we can save a few lines of code and make the die() messages consistent. Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@xxxxxxxxx> --- Notes: v5 * Removed assert()s since we do not need to over-zealously guard against insane code. * The read/write error messages have returned as they are useful in diagnosing permission errors. Hopefully I got the logic right this time. git-compat-util.h | 1 + wrapper.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h index e168dfd..392da79 100644 --- a/git-compat-util.h +++ b/git-compat-util.h @@ -722,6 +722,7 @@ extern ssize_t xread(int fd, void *buf, size_t len); extern ssize_t xwrite(int fd, const void *buf, size_t len); extern ssize_t xpread(int fd, void *buf, size_t len, off_t offset); extern int xdup(int fd); +extern FILE *xfopen(const char *path, const char *mode); extern FILE *xfdopen(int fd, const char *mode); extern int xmkstemp(char *template); extern int xmkstemp_mode(char *template, int mode); diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c index 0a4502d..e451463 100644 --- a/wrapper.c +++ b/wrapper.c @@ -346,6 +346,27 @@ int xdup(int fd) return ret; } +/** + * xfopen() is the same as fopen(), but it die()s if the fopen() fails. + */ +FILE *xfopen(const char *path, const char *mode) +{ + for (;;) { + FILE *fp = fopen(path, mode); + if (fp) + return fp; + if (errno == EINTR) + continue; + + if (*mode && mode[1] == '+') + die_errno(_("could not open '%s' for reading and writing"), path); + else if (*mode == 'w' || *mode == 'a') + die_errno(_("could not open '%s' for writing"), path); + else + die_errno(_("could not open '%s' for reading"), path); + } +} + FILE *xfdopen(int fd, const char *mode) { FILE *stream = fdopen(fd, mode); -- 2.5.0.rc1.76.gf60a929 -- 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