From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:01:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] quickfetch(): Prevent overflow of the rev-list command line
Message-ID: <81b0412b0907090101x7c8aa182o36687d67be3c5fb0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200907081801.36901.johan@herland.net>

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 18:01, Johan Herland<johan@herland.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 July 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> ... don't you get this error message with errno set to EPIPE?
>> Previously, there was no error message.
>
> Indeed, you are correct. I guess the following should be added to the
> patch:
>
>        if (write_in_full(revlist.in, sha1_to_hex(ref->old_sha1), 40) < 0 ||
>            write_in_full(revlist.in, "\n", 1) < 0) {
> -               error("failed write to rev-list");
> -               err = errno;
> +               if (errno != EPIPE) {
> +                       error("failed write to rev-list");
> +                       err = errno;

You'll loose errno this way: error() does not save it.