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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Michael Blume <blume.mike@gmail.com>, Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 41/68] init: use strbufs to store paths
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:51:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151001025119.GA31565@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh9mb7k3r.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:00:56PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Wow, my patch isn't even close to reasonable. I didn't realize because
> > we do not compile this code at all for non-Mac platforms. Sorry.
> 
> Perhaps the way we completely stub out the platform specific helpers
> contributes to this kind of gotchas?  I am wondering how much additional
> safety we would gain if we start doing something like this.

I think it is an improvement, but it does not solve all of the problems.
I also botched the implementation of probe_utf8_pathname_composition,
and that does not get compiled on most platforms (though we _could_
compile it and just never call it).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-01  2:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-24 21:02 [PATCH v2 0/68] war on sprintf Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:02 ` [PATCH 01/68] show-branch: avoid segfault with --reflog of unborn branch Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:03 ` [PATCH 02/68] mailsplit: fix FILE* leak in split_maildir Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:03 ` [PATCH 03/68] archive-tar: fix minor indentation violation Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:05 ` [PATCH 04/68] fsck: don't fsck alternates for connectivity-only check Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:05 ` [PATCH 05/68] add xsnprintf helper function Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:05 ` [PATCH 06/68] add git_path_buf " Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:05 ` [PATCH 07/68] strbuf: make strbuf_complete_line more generic Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:05 ` [PATCH 08/68] add reentrant variants of sha1_to_hex and find_unique_abbrev Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:05 ` [PATCH 09/68] fsck: use strbuf to generate alternate directories Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:05 ` [PATCH 10/68] mailsplit: make PATH_MAX buffers dynamic Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:05 ` [PATCH 11/68] trace: use strbuf for quote_crnl output Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:05 ` [PATCH 12/68] progress: store throughput display in a strbuf Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:06 ` [PATCH 13/68] test-dump-cache-tree: avoid overflow of cache-tree name Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:06 ` [PATCH 14/68] compat/inet_ntop: fix off-by-one in inet_ntop4 Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:06 ` [PATCH 15/68] convert trivial sprintf / strcpy calls to xsnprintf Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:06 ` [PATCH 16/68] archive-tar: use xsnprintf for trivial formatting Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:06 ` [PATCH 17/68] use xsnprintf for generating git object headers Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:06 ` [PATCH 18/68] find_short_object_filename: convert sprintf to xsnprintf Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:06 ` [PATCH 19/68] stop_progress_msg: " Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:06 ` [PATCH 20/68] compat/hstrerror: convert sprintf to snprintf Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:06 ` [PATCH 21/68] grep: use xsnprintf to format failure message Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:06 ` [PATCH 22/68] entry.c: convert strcpy to xsnprintf Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:06 ` [PATCH 23/68] add_packed_git: convert strcpy into xsnprintf Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:06 ` [PATCH 24/68] http-push: replace strcat with xsnprintf Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 25/68] receive-pack: convert strncpy to xsnprintf Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 26/68] replace trivial malloc + sprintf / strcpy calls with xstrfmt Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 27/68] config: use xstrfmt in normalize_value Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 28/68] fetch: replace static buffer with xstrfmt Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 29/68] use strip_suffix and xstrfmt to replace suffix Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 30/68] ref-filter: drop sprintf and strcpy calls Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 31/68] help: drop prepend function in favor of xstrfmt Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 32/68] mailmap: replace strcpy with xstrdup Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 33/68] read_branches_file: simplify string handling Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 34/68] read_remotes_file: " Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 35/68] resolve_ref: use strbufs for internal buffers Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 36/68] upload-archive: convert sprintf to strbuf Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 37/68] remote-ext: simplify git pkt-line generation Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 38/68] http-push: use strbuf instead of fwrite_buffer Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 39/68] http-walker: store url in a strbuf Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 40/68] sha1_get_pack_name: use " Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 41/68] init: use strbufs to store paths Jeff King
2015-09-29 23:50   ` Michael Blume
2015-09-30  0:23     ` Jeff King
2015-09-30 20:00       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-01  2:51         ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-10-02  6:00           ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-10-02 15:33             ` Jeff King
2015-10-03  5:58       ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-10-03 16:54         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-03 21:12           ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-10-04  3:37             ` Jeff King
2015-10-04  6:31               ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-10-05  3:41                 ` Jeff King
2015-10-05  3:43                   ` [PATCH 1/3] precompose_utf8: drop unused variable Jeff King
2015-10-06  3:24                     ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-10-05  3:45                   ` [PATCH 2/3] probe_utf8_pathname_composition: use internal strbuf Jeff King
2015-10-05  3:46                   ` [PATCH 3/3] init: use strbufs to store paths Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 42/68] apply: convert root string to strbuf Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 43/68] transport: use strbufs for status table "quickref" strings Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 44/68] merge-recursive: convert malloc / strcpy to strbuf Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 45/68] enter_repo: convert fixed-size buffers to strbufs Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 46/68] remove_leading_path: use a strbuf for internal storage Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 47/68] write_loose_object: convert to strbuf Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 48/68] diagnose_invalid_index_path: use strbuf to avoid strcpy/strcat Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 49/68] fetch-pack: use argv_array for index-pack / unpack-objects Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 50/68] http-push: use an argv_array for setup_revisions Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:07 ` [PATCH 51/68] stat_tracking_info: convert to argv_array Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 52/68] daemon: use cld->env_array when re-spawning Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 53/68] use sha1_to_hex_r() instead of strcpy Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 54/68] drop strcpy in favor of raw sha1_to_hex Jeff King
2015-09-24 23:42   ` Eric Sunshine
2015-09-25  1:36     ` Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 55/68] color: add overflow checks for parsing colors Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 56/68] use alloc_ref rather than hand-allocating "struct ref" Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 57/68] avoid sprintf and strcpy with flex arrays Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 58/68] receive-pack: simplify keep_arg computation Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 59/68] help: clean up kfmclient munging Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 60/68] prefer memcpy to strcpy Jeff King
2015-09-27 11:19   ` René Scharfe
2015-09-27 13:06     ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-09-27 13:13       ` René Scharfe
2015-09-27 13:24         ` René Scharfe
2015-09-28  7:09   ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 61/68] color: add color_set helper for copying raw colors Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 62/68] notes: document length of fanout path with a constant Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 63/68] convert strncpy to memcpy Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 64/68] fsck: drop inode-sorting code Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 65/68] Makefile: drop D_INO_IN_DIRENT build knob Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 66/68] fsck: use for_each_loose_file_in_objdir Jeff King
2015-09-26  3:36   ` Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 67/68] use strbuf_complete to conditionally append slash Jeff King
2015-09-24 21:08 ` [PATCH 68/68] name-rev: use strip_suffix to avoid magic numbers Jeff King

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