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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,
	Kirill Likhodedov <Kirill.Likhodedov@jetbrains.com>,
	Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
	Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-list: handle %x00 NUL in user format
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:38:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101014003853.GA10708@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtykpiwkv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 02:58:40PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Erik mentioned a potential problem with fwrite() and the way we handle
> > ANSI emulation for Windows. I think if there is a problem, then the same
> > problem exists in the --graph code, and we should do this, and then fix
> > both on top.
> 
> I am quite sure that --graph codepath is used a lot less often than this
> codepath, and most users do not hit the problem you are fixing---that is
> why it took so long to get noticed.  I think this printf() has been there
> from the beginning, even though the possibility of placing a NUL in
> buf.buf may have come much later, like when %x00 was introduced).
> 
> Use of fwrite() here will affect all Windows users who use color (probably
> most of them), no?  It may be a deliberate regression, but it has a real
> cost associated with it; it will break more usual uses on Windows to help
> an obscure use case on POSIX.

Yeah, I don't want to regress Windows users in an actual release. I was
hoping for you to queue it on a side branch, and then have Windows
people apply the proper fix on top before getting it merged in.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-14  0:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-07 18:25 [PATCH] rev-list: handle %x00 NUL in user format Jeff King
2010-10-13 21:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-14  0:38   ` Jeff King [this message]

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