RE: [PATCH] Prefer sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) over getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE,...)

["Joachim Schmitz" <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>]

> From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gitster@pobox.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:23 PM
> To: Joachim Schmitz
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prefer sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) over
> getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE,...)
> 
> "Joachim Schmitz" <jojo@schmitz-digital.de> writes:
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Joachim Schmitz <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
> > ---
> >  sha1_file.c | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c index af5cfbd..76714ad 100644
> > --- a/sha1_file.c
> > +++ b/sha1_file.c
> > @@ -747,6 +747,9 @@ static int open_packed_git_1(struct packed_git *p)
> >                 return error("packfile %s index unavailable",
> > p->pack_name);
> >
> >         if (!pack_max_fds) {
> > +#ifdef _SC_OPEN_MAX
> > +               unsigned int max_fds = sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX); #else
> >                 struct rlimit lim;
> >                 unsigned int max_fds;
> >
> > @@ -754,6 +757,7 @@ static int open_packed_git_1(struct packed_git *p)
> >                         die_errno("cannot get RLIMIT_NOFILE");
> >
> >                 max_fds = lim.rlim_cur;
> > +#endif
> >
> >                 /* Save 3 for stdin/stdout/stderr, 22 for work */
> >                 if (25 < max_fds)
> > --
> > 1.7.12
> 
> Looks sane but it would be more readable to make this a small helper
function,
> so that we do not need to have #ifdef/#endif in the primary flow of the
code.

Hmm, in compat/? Worth the effort fort hat single occrence?

> By the way, I noticed that you seem to be sending patches out of git,
instead of
> "diff -ru", which is a good sign ;-).  

Not quite, I'm generating them with "git format-patch origin", on the
NonStop machine, but can't send email from there (a) behind a firewall and
b) no email client available), so I copy/paste the resulting file into
Outlook.

>But all of your patches are whitespace
> damaged and cannot be applied X-<.

May well be Outlooks fault? How to solve?