Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> Here's a version of that patch that retains the fflush call >> and adds a comment explaining why it's needed. > > Ok. I will hereby just suggest to Junio that he just not take patches from > you. > > You seem to be totally unable to ever really think or worry about your own > little uninteresting test-case, and have shown yourself totally > uninterested in anything anybody ever tells you. > > In other words, you now screwed up EPIPE. > > AGAIN. > > And why? All apparently because you want "disk full" rather than just > "write error". > > Jim, you really need to see past your small test, and think about the > bigger picture. No. I don't keep the "small", git-specific, picture in mind all the time. Git is the only project I contribute to with this no-EPIPE restriction, and it doesn't come naturally yet. Here's the patch you seem to want. --------------------------------------------------------- Without this patch, git-rev-list unnecessarily omits strerror(errno) from its diagnostic, upon write failure: $ ./git-rev-list --max-count=1 HEAD > /dev/full fatal: write failure on standard output With the patch, git reports the desired ENOSPC diagnostic: fatal: write failure on standard output: No space left on device * builtin-rev-list (show_commit): Diagnose a failed fflush call. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- builtin-rev-list.c | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-rev-list.c b/builtin-rev-list.c index 813aadf..94f8fca 100644 --- a/builtin-rev-list.c +++ b/builtin-rev-list.c @@ -100,7 +100,12 @@ static void show_commit(struct commit *commit) printf("%s%c", buf, hdr_termination); free(buf); } - fflush(stdout); + + /* Flush regularly. + This is especially important for an asynchronous consumer. */ + if (fflush(stdout) && errno != EPIPE) + die("write failure on standard output: %s", strerror(errno)); + if (commit->parents) { free_commit_list(commit->parents); commit->parents = NULL; - 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