Re: [PATCH] strbuf: clear errno before calling getdelim(3)

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 07:51:34AM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:

> Am 13.08.2017 um 06:32 schrieb Jeff King:
> > On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 01:57:06PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:
> > 
> >> But we probably want to check for other errors.  They look unlikely
> >> enough that we may get away with something like this:
> >>
> >> 	-	if (errno == ENOMEM)
> >> 	-		die("Out of memory, getdelim failed");
> >> 	+	if (errno || ferror(fp))
> >> 	+		die_errno(_("getdelim failed"));
> >>
> >> NB: The other errors are EINVAL (input pointers are NULL or the
> >> stream is invalid) and EOVERFLOW (read more than fits into ssize_t)
> >> according to POSIX and the Linux manpage.
> > 
> > Can't we also get any of the errors that fgetc() would return. I.e., any
> > normal read errors? We should return EOF on those, not die (and the
> > caller can check ferror()).
> 
> Yes, we can get those as well, and leaving error checking to the caller
> is a flexible way to handle them.  
> 
> Many of the existing callers don't seem to be bother, though.

Yes, but keep in mind that we need to match the non-getdelim()
implementation here (which itself tries to behave like more or less like
a dynamic fgets, including the eof/error handling). Because the callers
don't know which one they're getting.

-Peff