Re: [PATCH 01/41] usage.c: move format processing out of die_errno()

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On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 11:26:02AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Caller supplied buffer would be the way to go when multiple threads
>> could be showing errors and warnings, right?
>>
>> It would not make too much of a difference for die(), though.
>
> I think it can matter for die(). This is happening above the pluggable
> die_routine() layer, so it's possible for an async task to call die()
> which will end in pthread_exit(), while the main program is calling
> die() to end in regular exit().
>
> I imagine it's exceedingly unlikely, and of course both threads are
> dying anyway, but it could result in some pretty weird memory errors.
> It's probably worth taking precautions against, especially because it's
> to easy to do so.

So, sum it up, the new fmt_with_err() will take a buffer and size.
die_errno() sticks to its static buffer as before. error_errno() and
warning_errno() can allocate 1k on stack to be more
multithread-friendly. Let me know if some other change is needed.
-- 
Duy
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