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[PATCH v3 1/6] usage.c: add a die_message() routine

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 22, 2021, 18:19 UTC
Message-ID
<patch-v3-1.6-fe8763337ed-20211022T175227Z-avarab@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<cover-v3-0.6-00000000000-20211022T175227Z-avarab@gmail.com>

We have code in various places that would like to call die(), but wants to defer the exit(128) it would invoke, e.g. to print an additional message, or adjust the exit code. Add a die_message() helper routine to bridge this gap in the API.

Functionally this behaves just like the error() routine, except it'll print a "fatal: " prefix, and it will exit with 128 instead of -1, this is so that caller can pas the return value to exit(128), instead of having to hardcode "128".

A subsequent commit will migrate various callers that benefit from this function over to it, for now we're just migrating trivial users in usage.c itself.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 git-compat-util.h |  3 +++
 usage.c           | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 141bb86351e..c1bb32460b6 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -471,6 +471,7 @@ NORETURN void usage(const char *err);
 NORETURN void usagef(const char *err, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 1, 2)));
 NORETURN void die(const char *err, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 1, 2)));
 NORETURN void die_errno(const char *err, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 1, 2)));
+int die_message(const char *err, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 1, 2)));
 int error(const char *err, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 1, 2)));
 int error_errno(const char *err, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 1, 2)));
 void warning(const char *err, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 1, 2)));
@@ -505,6 +506,8 @@ static inline int const_error(void)
 typedef void (*report_fn)(const char *, va_list params);
 
 void set_die_routine(NORETURN_PTR report_fn routine);
+void set_die_message_routine(report_fn routine);
+report_fn get_die_message_routine(void);
 void set_error_routine(report_fn routine);
 report_fn get_error_routine(void);
 void set_warn_routine(report_fn routine);
diff --git a/usage.c b/usage.c
index c7d233b0de9..3d4b90bce1f 100644
--- a/usage.c
+++ b/usage.c
@@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ static NORETURN void usage_builtin(const char *err, va_list params)
 	exit(129);
 }
 
+static void die_message_builtin(const char *err, va_list params)
+{
+	trace2_cmd_error_va(err, params);
+	vreportf("fatal: ", err, params);
+}
+
 /*
  * We call trace2_cmd_error_va() in the below functions first and
  * expect it to va_copy 'params' before using it (because an 'ap' can
@@ -62,10 +68,9 @@ static NORETURN void usage_builtin(const char *err, va_list params)
  */
 static NORETURN void die_builtin(const char *err, va_list params)
 {
-	trace2_cmd_error_va(err, params);
-
-	vreportf("fatal: ", err, params);
+	report_fn die_message_fn = get_die_message_routine();
 
+	die_message_fn(err, params);
 	exit(128);
 }
 
@@ -109,6 +114,7 @@ static int die_is_recursing_builtin(void)
  * (ugh), so keep things static. */
 static NORETURN_PTR report_fn usage_routine = usage_builtin;
 static NORETURN_PTR report_fn die_routine = die_builtin;
+static report_fn die_message_routine = die_message_builtin;
 static report_fn error_routine = error_builtin;
 static report_fn warn_routine = warn_builtin;
 static int (*die_is_recursing)(void) = die_is_recursing_builtin;
@@ -118,6 +124,16 @@ void set_die_routine(NORETURN_PTR report_fn routine)
 	die_routine = routine;
 }
 
+void set_die_message_routine(report_fn routine)
+{
+	die_message_routine = routine;
+}
+
+report_fn get_die_message_routine(void)
+{
+	return die_message_routine;
+}
+
 void set_error_routine(report_fn routine)
 {
 	error_routine = routine;
@@ -157,14 +173,23 @@ void NORETURN usage(const char *err)
 	usagef("%s", err);
 }
 
+#undef die_message
+int die_message(const char *err, ...)
+{
+	va_list params;
+
+	va_start(params, err);
+	die_message_routine(err, params);
+	va_end(params);
+	return 128;
+}
+
 void NORETURN die(const char *err, ...)
 {
 	va_list params;
 
-	if (die_is_recursing()) {
-		fputs("fatal: recursion detected in die handler\n", stderr);
-		exit(128);
-	}
+	if (die_is_recursing())
+		exit(die_message("recursion detected in die handler"));
 
 	va_start(params, err);
 	die_routine(err, params);
@@ -200,11 +225,8 @@ void NORETURN die_errno(const char *fmt, ...)
 	char buf[1024];
 	va_list params;
 
-	if (die_is_recursing()) {
-		fputs("fatal: recursion detected in die_errno handler\n",
-			stderr);
-		exit(128);
-	}
+	if (die_is_recursing())
+		exit(die_message("recursion detected in die_errno handler"));
 
 	va_start(params, fmt);
 	die_routine(fmt_with_err(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt), params);
-- 
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