Re: [PATCH v2] Refactor recv_sideband()

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Lukas Fleischer wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 at 19:50:13, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 08:54:22AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > >
> > >> It's just you used xwrite() there that introduced a different issue.
> > >> Wouldn't replacing it with fwrite(stderr) without changing anything
> > >> else solve that?
> 
> I do not see how using fwrite() buys us anything. Neither fwrite() nor
> fputs() nor fprintf() guarantee to call write() only once. Each of these
> three functions is buffered when printing to stdout and unbuffered when
> printing to stderr.

You are right.  However, in practice:

- fprintf(stderr, "%s", buffer) is likely to call write() only once 
  given there is only one string specifier, and

- On Windows the ANSI escape sequences are interpreted by fprintf() and 
  not by write() nor by the actual display console code. Insane but such 
  is life sometimes.

So the point is simply to replace your call to write() by a call to 
fprintf(..., "%*s", ...) in your patch which should provide the same 
end result as before.


Nicolas