From: Eric Sunshine Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 07:24:46 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/15] sequencer: lib'ify read_populate_todo() Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <0de75bbce8ade0c6e5cf87d3647faa71a89c6275.1471968378.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > To be truly useful, the sequencer should never die() but always return > an error. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin > --- > diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c > @@ -754,18 +754,21 @@ static void read_populate_todo(struct commit_list **todo_list, > > fd = open(git_path_todo_file(), O_RDONLY); > if (fd < 0) > - die_errno(_("Could not open %s"), git_path_todo_file()); > + return error(_("Could not open %s (%s)"), > + git_path_todo_file(), strerror(errno)); error_errno() perhaps? > if (strbuf_read(&buf, fd, 0) < 0) { > close(fd); > strbuf_release(&buf); > - die(_("Could not read %s."), git_path_todo_file()); > + return error(_("Could not read %s."), git_path_todo_file()); > } > close(fd); > > res = parse_insn_buffer(buf.buf, todo_list, opts); > strbuf_release(&buf); > if (res) > - die(_("Unusable instruction sheet: %s"), git_path_todo_file()); > + return error(_("Unusable instruction sheet: %s"), > + git_path_todo_file()); Neither 'fd' nor 'buf' are leaked by these two new error returns. Good. > + return 0; > }