Re: [PATCH 1/2] sequencer: factor out rewrite_file()

From: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Date: Nov 1, 2017, 11:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20171101110715.e4s7td2weisog4wt@ruderich.org>
In-Reply-To: <6150c80b-cb0e-06d4-63a7-a4f4a9107ab2@web.de>

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 10:54:21AM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:

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> +static int rewrite_file(const char *path, const char *buf, size_t len)
> +{
> +	int rc = 0;
> +	int fd = open(path, O_WRONLY);
> +	if (fd < 0)
> +		return error_errno(_("could not open '%s' for writing"), path);
> +	if (write_in_full(fd, buf, len) < 0)
> +		rc = error_errno(_("could not write to '%s'"), path);
> +	if (!rc && ftruncate(fd, len) < 0)
> +		rc = error_errno(_("could not truncate '%s'"), path);
> +	close(fd);

We might want to check the return value of close() as some file systems report write errors only on close. But I'm not sure how the rest of Git's code-base handles this.

> +	return rc;
> +}

Regards Simon

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