Re: [PATCH 22/22] sequencer: refactor write_message()

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Hello Johannes,

W dniu 29.08.2016 o 10:06, Johannes Schindelin pisze:

> The write_message() function safely writes an strbuf to a file.
> Sometimes this is inconvenient, though: the text to be written may not
> be stored in a strbuf, or the strbuf should not be released after
> writing.

By "this" you mean "using strbuf", isn't it?  It is not very obvious,
and I think it would be better to say it explicitly.

>
> Let's allow for such use cases by refactoring write_message() to allow
> for a convenience function write_file_gently(). As some of the upcoming
> callers of that new function will want to append a newline character,
> let's just add a flag for that, too.

This paragraph feels a bit convoluted.

As I understand it, you refactor "safely writing string to a file"
into write_with_lock_file(), and make write_message() use it.  The
new function makes it easy to create new convenience function 
write_file_gently(); as some of the upcoming callers of this new
function would want to append a newline character, add a flag for
it in write_file_gently(), and thus in write_with_lock_file().

Isn't it better / easier to understand?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  sequencer.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
> index 5efed2e..f5b5e5e 100644
> --- a/sequencer.c
> +++ b/sequencer.c
> @@ -239,22 +239,37 @@ static void print_advice(int show_hint, struct replay_opts *opts)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -static int write_message(struct strbuf *msgbuf, const char *filename)
> +static int write_with_lock_file(const char *filename,
> +				const void *buf, size_t len, int append_eol)
>  {
>  	static struct lock_file msg_file;
>  
>  	int msg_fd = hold_lock_file_for_update(&msg_file, filename, 0);
>  	if (msg_fd < 0)
>  		return error_errno(_("Could not lock '%s'"), filename);
> -	if (write_in_full(msg_fd, msgbuf->buf, msgbuf->len) < 0)
> +	if (write_in_full(msg_fd, buf, len) < 0)
>  		return error_errno(_("Could not write to %s"), filename);

You could have, for consistency, add quotes around filename (see previous
error_errno callsite), *while at it*:

  		return error_errno(_("Could not write to '%s'"), filename);


> -	strbuf_release(msgbuf);
> +	if (append_eol && write(msg_fd, "\n", 1) < 0)
> +		return error_errno(_("Could not write eol to %s"), filename);

Same here, and it wouldn't even be 'while at it'

  +		return error_errno(_("Could not write eol to '%s'"), filename);


>  	if (commit_lock_file(&msg_file) < 0)
>  		return error(_("Error wrapping up %s."), filename);

Another "while at it"... though the one that can be safely postponed
(well, the make message easier to understand part, not the quote
filename part):

  		return error(_("Error wrapping up writing to '%s'."), filename);


>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static int write_message(struct strbuf *msgbuf, const char *filename)
> +{
> +	int res = write_with_lock_file(filename, msgbuf->buf, msgbuf->len, 0);
> +	strbuf_release(msgbuf);
> +	return res;
> +}

Nice.

> +
> +static int write_file_gently(const char *filename,
> +			     const char *text, int append_eol)
> +{
> +	return write_with_lock_file(filename, text, strlen(text), append_eol);
> +}

Nice.  And it is static function, so we don't need to come up
with a better function name (to describe its function better).

> +
>  /*
>   * Reads a file that was presumably written by a shell script, i.e.
>   * with an end-of-line marker that needs to be stripped.
> 

And thus we got to the last patch in this series.  I have skipped
patches that already got reviewed; are there some that you would
like to have second review of?  Is there patch series that needs
to be applied earlier that needs a review?

P.S. I'll try to respond to your comments later today.

Regards,
-- 
Jakub Narębski




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