Re: [PATCH] strbuf_write: omit system call when length is zero

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On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> In case the length of the buffer is zero, we do not need to call the
>>> fwrite system call as a performance improvement.
>>
>> fwrite is a libc call, not system call. Are you sure it always calls
>> write() (assuming buffering is off)?
>
> I do not think so, but I suspect that the patch misstates its
> rationale (I said I get uncomfortable every time I see a function
> that takes size and nelem separately used by a caller that can
> potentially pass nleme=0, when I wondered it it is OK that no caller
> of this funtion checks its return value).
>

This is exactly what happened. I assumed fwrite would be a system call
eventually.
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