Re: [PATCH] convert: avoid malloc of original file size

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> As discussed there, I do think this only solves half the problem, as the
> smudge filter has the same issue in reverse. That's more complicated to
> fix, and AFAIK nobody is working on it. But I don't think there's any
> reason not to pick up this part in the meantime.

Yeah, I agree that the reverse direction shares the same issue.

I am not sure 0 is a good initial value in this direction, either;
I'd rather clip to min(len, core.bigfilethreshold) or something like
that, to avoid regressing the more normal use cases.  

But let's queue this and see what happens.

Thanks.

>
>  convert.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/convert.c b/convert.c
> index 5d0307fc10..94ff837649 100644
> --- a/convert.c
> +++ b/convert.c
> @@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ static int apply_single_file_filter(const char *path, const char *src, size_t le
>  	if (start_async(&async))
>  		return 0;	/* error was already reported */
>  
> -	if (strbuf_read(&nbuf, async.out, len) < 0) {
> +	if (strbuf_read(&nbuf, async.out, 0) < 0) {
>  		err = error(_("read from external filter '%s' failed"), cmd);
>  	}
>  	if (close(async.out)) {