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