Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > It is not buffered as it writes to stderr. And some C libs do separate > calls to write() for every string format specifier. So "%s%s%c" may end > up calling write() 3 times depending on the implementation. The example > I gave in commit ed1902ef5c is real and I even observed it with strace > back then. I think you meant 9ac13ec9 (atomic write for sideband remote messages, 2006-10-11). IIRC, back then we did't use to make as much use of strbuf API as we do today; if we were doing that commit today, we would be doing strbuf, I would suspect. -- 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