Re: [PATCH] http: cast result to FILE *

[Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 4:21 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Dan McGregor <dan.mcgregor@usask.ca> writes:
>
> > Commit 8dd2e88a92 ("http: support file handles for HTTP_KEEP_ERROR",
> > 2019-01-10) introduced an implicit assumption that rewind, fileno, and
> > fflush are functions. At least on FreeBSD fileno is not, and as such
> > passing a void * failed.
>
> I am not strongly opposed to this patch,

Even if this is needed, should it be done behind git-compat-util.h
instead? That way if fileno(void*) is used elsewhere, we don't have to
do the casting again.

> but shouldn't you be filing
> a bug report against FreeBSD instead?  The implementation is free to
> define fileno(fh) as a macro, but it shouldn't force such a change
> to conformant programs.
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206146
>
> > Explicitly cast result to a FILE * when using standard functions that
> > may ultimately be macros.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dan McGregor <dan.mcgregor@usask.ca>
> > ---
> >  http.c | 6 +++---
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
> > index 954bebf684..8b9476b151 100644
> > --- a/http.c
> > +++ b/http.c
> > @@ -1996,12 +1996,12 @@ static int http_request_reauth(const char *url,
> >               strbuf_reset(result);
> >               break;
> >       case HTTP_REQUEST_FILE:
> > -             if (fflush(result)) {
> > +             if (fflush((FILE *)result)) {
> >                       error_errno("unable to flush a file");
> >                       return HTTP_START_FAILED;
> >               }
> > -             rewind(result);
> > -             if (ftruncate(fileno(result), 0) < 0) {
> > +             rewind((FILE *)result);
> > +             if (ftruncate(fileno((FILE *)result), 0) < 0) {
> >                       error_errno("unable to truncate a file");
> >                       return HTTP_START_FAILED;
> >               }



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Duy