From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/7] read_in_full: reset errno before reading
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:29:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170925202916.4tqo4gttrsoy7kai@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170925202646.agsnpmar3dzocdcr@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Many callers of read_in_full() complain when we do not read
their full byte-count. But a check like:
if (read_in_full(fd, buf, len) != len)
return error_errno("unable to read");
conflates two problem conditions:
1. A real error from read().
2. There were fewer than "len" bytes available.
In the first case, showing the user strerror(errno) is
useful. But in the second, we may see a random errno that
was set by some previous system call.
In an ideal world, callers would always distinguish between
these cases and give a useful message for each. But as an
easy way to make our imperfect world better, let's reset
errno to a known value. The best we can do is "0", which
will yield something like:
unable to read: Success
That's not great, but at least it's deterministic and makes
it clear that we didn't see an error from read().
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
wrapper.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c
index 61aba0b5c1..f55debc92d 100644
--- a/wrapper.c
+++ b/wrapper.c
@@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ ssize_t read_in_full(int fd, void *buf, size_t count)
char *p = buf;
ssize_t total = 0;
+ errno = 0;
while (count > 0) {
ssize_t loaded = xread(fd, p, count);
if (loaded < 0)
--
2.14.1.1148.ga2561536a1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-25 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-25 20:26 [PATCH 0/7] read/write_in_full leftovers Jeff King
2017-09-25 20:27 ` [PATCH 1/7] files-backend: prefer "0" for write_in_full() error check Jeff King
2017-09-25 21:59 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-25 23:13 ` Jeff King
2017-09-25 20:27 ` [PATCH 2/7] notes-merge: drop dead zero-write code Jeff King
2017-09-25 21:59 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-25 20:29 ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-09-25 22:09 ` [PATCH 3/7] read_in_full: reset errno before reading Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-25 23:23 ` Jeff King
2017-09-25 23:33 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-25 23:37 ` Jeff King
2017-09-25 23:45 ` Jeff King
2017-09-25 23:55 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-26 0:01 ` Jeff King
2017-09-26 0:06 ` Stefan Beller
2017-09-26 0:09 ` Jeff King
2017-09-26 0:16 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-26 0:17 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-26 0:19 ` Jeff King
2017-09-26 0:22 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-26 4:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-27 4:07 ` Jeff King
2017-09-27 4:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-26 0:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-26 0:17 ` Jeff King
2017-09-26 0:20 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-26 0:25 ` Jeff King
2017-09-26 0:28 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-25 23:52 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-25 20:29 ` [PATCH 4/7] get-tar-commit-id: prefer "!=" for read_in_full() error check Jeff King
2017-09-25 22:10 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-25 20:30 ` [PATCH 5/7] worktree: use xsize_t to access file size Jeff King
2017-09-25 22:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-25 20:31 ` [PATCH 6/7] worktree: check the result of read_in_full() Jeff King
2017-09-25 22:14 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-25 23:25 ` Jeff King
2017-09-25 20:33 ` [PATCH 7/7] add xread_in_full() helper Jeff King
2017-09-25 22:16 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-09-25 23:27 ` Jeff King
2017-09-27 5:54 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] read/write_in_full leftovers Jeff King
2017-09-27 6:00 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] files-backend: prefer "0" for write_in_full() error check Jeff King
2017-09-27 6:00 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] notes-merge: drop dead zero-write code Jeff King
2017-09-27 6:00 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] prefer "!=" when checking read_in_full() result Jeff King
2017-09-27 6:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-27 7:09 ` Jeff King
2017-09-27 6:01 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] avoid looking at errno for short read_in_full() returns Jeff King
2017-09-27 6:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-27 6:02 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] distinguish error versus short read from read_in_full() Jeff King
2017-09-27 6:02 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] worktree: use xsize_t to access file size Jeff King
2017-09-27 6:02 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] worktree: check the result of read_in_full() Jeff King
2017-09-27 6:57 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] read/write_in_full leftovers Junio C Hamano
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20170925202916.4tqo4gttrsoy7kai@sigill.intra.peff.net \
--to=peff@peff.net \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=jrnieder@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://80x24.org/mirrors/git.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).