From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 21:55:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/WIP 2/8] wrapper: implement xfopen()
Message-ID: <20150527215507.GD23259@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1432733618-25629-3-git-send-email-pyokagan@gmail.com>

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 09:33:32PM +0800, Paul Tan wrote:

> +/**
> + * xfopen() is the same as fopen(), but it die()s if the fopen() fails.
> + */
> +FILE *xfopen(const char *path, const char *mode)
> +{
> +	FILE *fp;
> +
> +	assert(path);
> +	assert(mode);
> +	fp = fopen(path, mode);
> +	if (!fp) {
> +		if (*mode == 'w' || *mode == 'a')
> +			die_errno(_("could not open '%s' for writing"), path);

This misses "r+". I don't think we use that in our code currently, but
if we're going to introduce a wrapper like this, I think it makes sense
to cover all cases.

-Peff