Re: [PATCH/RFC] recv_sideband: Band #2 always goes to stderr

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> 
> This removes the last parameter of recv_sideband, by which the callers
> told which channel band #2 data should be written to. Since both callers
> of the function passed 2 for the parameter, we hereby remove the
> parameter and send band #2 to stderr explicitly using fprintf.
> 
> This has the nice side-effect that the band #2 data (most importantly
> progress reports during a fetch operation) passes through our ANSI
> emulation layer on Windows.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>

Looks right to me.

> diff --git a/sideband.c b/sideband.c
> index cca3360..a706ac8 100644
> --- a/sideband.c
> +++ b/sideband.c
> @@ -50,8 +49,8 @@ int recv_sideband(const char *me, int in_stream, int out, int err)
>  		switch (band) {
>  		case 3:
>  			buf[pf] = ' ';
> -			buf[pf+1+len] = '\n';
> -			safe_write(err, buf, pf+1+len+1);
> +			buf[pf+1+len] = '\0';
> +			fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", buf);

Can't you instead do:

	fprintf(stderr, "%.*s\n", buf, pf + len);

like you do...

> @@ -95,12 +94,13 @@ int recv_sideband(const char *me, int in_stream, int out, int err)
>  					memcpy(save, b + brk, sf);
>  					b[brk + sf - 1] = b[brk - 1];
>  					memcpy(b + brk - 1, suffix, sf);
> -					safe_write(err, b, brk + sf);
> +					fprintf(stderr, "%.*s", brk + sf, b);
>  					memcpy(b + brk, save, sf);
>  					len -= brk;
>  				} else {
>  					int l = brk ? brk : len;
> -					safe_write(err, b, l);
> +					if (l > 0)
> +						fprintf(stderr, "%.*s", l, b);

here?

-- 
Shawn.