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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <tguyot@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <dermoth@aei.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Allow passing pipes for input pipes to diff --no-index
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:05:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200918180508.GB186717@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200918175836.GA149847@nand.local>

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 01:58:36PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:

> > *untested*:
> >
> >     if (!lstat(name, &st)) {
> >         if (!S_ISLNK(st.st_mode))
> >             return(0);
> >         if (!stat(name, &st)) {
> >             if (!S_ISFIFO(st.st_mode))
> >                 return(0);
> 
> I still don't think I quite understand why FIFOs aren't allowed...

It's the other way around. Non-fifos return "0" from this "is it a pipe"
function.

I think it is to prevent a false positive with:

  rm bar
  ln -s foo bar
  git diff --no-index foo something-else

We'd still want to treat "foo" as a symlink there. I.e., the heuristic
for guessing it's a process substitution pipe is:

  - it's a symlink that doesn't point anywhere
  - it's also a fifo

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-18 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-18 11:32 Allow passing pipes to diff --no-index + bugfix Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-18 11:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] diff: Fix modified lines stats with --stat and --numstat Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-18 14:46   ` Taylor Blau
2020-09-18 15:10     ` Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-18 17:37       ` Jeff King
2020-09-18 18:00         ` Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-20  4:53       ` Thomas Guyot
2020-09-18 17:27   ` Jeff King
2020-09-18 17:52     ` Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-18 18:06       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-23 19:16         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-23 19:23           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-23 20:44             ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-24  4:49               ` Thomas Guyot
2020-09-24  5:24                 ` [PATCH v3] " Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-24  7:41                   ` [PATCH v4] " Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-24  6:40                 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Junio C Hamano
2020-09-24  7:13                   ` Thomas Guyot
2020-09-24 17:19                     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-24 17:38                       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-23 15:05     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-20 13:09   ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-20 15:39     ` Taylor Blau
2020-09-20 16:38       ` Thomas Guyot
2020-09-20 19:11       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-20 20:08         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-20 20:36         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-20 22:15           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-21 19:26         ` Jeff King
2020-09-21 21:51           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-21 22:20             ` Jeff King
2020-09-21 22:37               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-18 11:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] Allow passing pipes for input pipes to diff --no-index Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-18 14:36   ` Taylor Blau
2020-09-18 16:34     ` Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-18 17:19       ` Jeff King
2020-09-18 17:21         ` Jeff King
2020-09-18 17:39         ` Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2020-09-18 17:48         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-18 18:02           ` Jeff King
2020-09-20 12:54             ` Thomas Guyot
2020-09-21 19:31               ` Jeff King
2020-09-21 20:14                 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-18 17:58       ` Taylor Blau
2020-09-18 18:05         ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-09-18 17:20     ` Jeff King
2020-09-18 18:00       ` Taylor Blau
2020-09-18 21:56   ` brian m. carlson
2020-09-18 17:51 ` Allow passing pipes to diff --no-index + bugfix Junio C Hamano
2020-09-18 18:24   ` Thomas Guyot-Sionnest

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