From: prohaska@zib.de
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 04:32:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] convert: Stream from fd to required clean filter instead of mmap
Message-ID: <683E5A36-1D64-4185-8C81-E7D8EDB72DE9@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <36DA9A8E-2F61-4DD3-9F82-427976C710A6@zib.de>


On Aug 6, 2014, at 6:22 AM, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:

> On Aug 4, 2014, at 9:03 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>>> +	return apply_filter(path, 0, 0, -1, 0, ca.drv->clean);
>> 
>> What's the significance of "-1" here?  Does somebody in the
>> callchain from apply_filter() check if fd < 0 and act differently
>> (not a complaint nor rhetoric question)?
> 
> The decision in apply_filter() to return before the real work is
> taken on the first 0.

Hmm..., actually it's the last 0 that matters.  If no destination buffer
is given, apply_filter() returns whether it would filter or not.


>  Any value for fd would be ok.  The -1 is
> only a reminder that the fd is invalid.


	Steffen