Re: [PATCH 2/2] pack-objects: be incredibly anal about stdio semantics

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Apr 2, 2006, 21:09 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmzf3k7m9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604021328380.3050@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> This is the "letter of the law" version of using fgets() properly in the
> face of incredibly broken stdio implementations.  We can work around the
> Solaris breakage with SA_RESTART, but in case anybody else is ever that
> stupid, here's the "safe" (read: "insanely anal") way to use fgets.

Thanks.

It's good that I can say "Oh, I think this is the part that is broken, but I am going to bed" to find the problem solved by capable others when I wake up the next day. Global distributed development process at the finest, although I suspect Jason, Linus and myself are all in the same timezone ;-)

Did you mean this as a real change or a demonstration? The sigaction change is a real fix, but somehow I find this one similar to the "(void*) NULL" thing you objected earlier (which was not merged because I agreed with your argument)...