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Re: 'git fast-export' is crashing on the gcc repo

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 12, 2007, 01:38 UTC
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<20071212013828.GC19857@steel.home>
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Nicolas Pitre, Tue, Dec 11, 2007 23:06:42 +0100:
> 
> Well, ignore the above.  It seems that most of stdio doesn't set errno 
> so the above is crap.
> 

Well, it had no reason to in this case. It's not an error. It does not even have to do a syscall.

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> diff --git a/builtin-fast-export.c b/builtin-fast-export.c
> index 2136aad..c32a124 100755
> --- a/builtin-fast-export.c
> +++ b/builtin-fast-export.c
> @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static void handle_object(const unsigned char *sha1)
>  	mark_object(object);
>  
>  	printf("blob\nmark :%d\ndata %lu\n", last_idnum, size);
> -	if (fwrite(buf, size, 1, stdout) != 1)
> +	if (fwrite(buf, 1, size, stdout) != size)
That's a probable syscall which could be spared
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  1. Nicolas PitreDec 11, 2007
  2. Marco CostalbaDec 11, 2007
  3. Fix git-fast-export for zero-sized blobsAlex Riesen, Dec 11, 2007
  4. Nicolas PitreDec 11, 2007
  5. Nicolas PitreDec 11, 2007
  6. Alex RiesenDec 12, 2007
  7. Nicolas PitreDec 12, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2007
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