From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 01:27:09 GMT
Subject: Re: sha1_to_hex() usage cleanup
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605031826070.4086@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wvabp7a.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Wed, 3 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Makes sort of sense in that the callers still need to be aware
> of the magic 4 limit but as long as they are they do not have to
> worry about allocation/deallocation/copying.  But is that kind
> of cheat maintainable?  I dunno.

If we just tell people that the rule is that it's still a statically 
allocated buffer, but that you can magically use two "sha1_to_hex()" calls 
in the same printf(), we'll probably get a good mix of "usable and safe".

		Linus