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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michael Gernoth <simigern@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>,
	Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/3] archive: specfile syntax change: "$Format:%PLCHLDR$" instead of just "%PLCHLDR"
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:44:05 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709071142340.28586@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46E0647A.10000@lsrfire.ath.cx>

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Hi,

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, René Scharfe wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> >> +
> >> +		b = memchr(a, '$', len);
> >> +		if (!b || a + len < b + 9 || memcmp(b + 1, "Format:", 7))
> >> +			break;
> > 
> > Wouldn't memmem(buffer, len, "$Format:", 8) be better here?
> 
> Oh, that's a nice GNU extension, didn't know it before.

Oh sorry, I didn't even realise that this is a GNU extension...

> > A general comment: since you plan to output the result into a file 
> > anyway, it should be even easier to avoid realloc(), and do a 
> > print_formatted_specfile() instead of a format_specfile(), no?
> 
> Hmm, not sure what you mean.  At least archive-tar needs the expanded 
> contents in a buffer (not immediately written to stdout) because it 
> tries to mimic a real tar and always writes in blocks of 10k and 
> therefore needs to buffer the output.

Yeah, I missed that.  Thanks for explaining it to me!

Ciao,
Dscho

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-07 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-03 18:07 [PATCH 2/3] archive: specfile support (--pretty=format: in archive files) René Scharfe
2007-09-03 18:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-03 20:19   ` David Kastrup
2007-09-04 23:13     ` René Scharfe
2007-09-03 23:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-04  5:45   ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-04 10:41     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-04 23:13       ` René Scharfe
2007-09-05  0:12         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-05  0:23         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-06 16:20           ` [PATCH 4/3] archive: specfile syntax change: "$Format:%PLCHLDR$" instead of just "%PLCHLDR" René Scharfe
2007-09-06 17:11             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-06 20:35               ` René Scharfe
2007-09-06 20:53                 ` René Scharfe
2007-09-06 23:17                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-07 10:44                 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-09-06 22:32             ` [PATCH 3.5/3] add memmem() René Scharfe
2007-09-06 22:34             ` [PATCH 4/3] archive: specfile syntax change: "$Format:%PLCHLDR$" instead of just "%PLCHLDR" (take 2) René Scharfe
2007-09-06 16:51           ` [PATCH 5/3] archive: rename attribute specfile to export-subst René Scharfe
2007-09-06 17:13             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-06 20:38               ` René Scharfe
2007-09-06 21:03               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-07 10:45                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-04 23:13   ` [PATCH 2/3] archive: specfile support (--pretty=format: in archive files) René Scharfe
2007-09-05  0:19     ` Junio C Hamano

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