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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SEGV when lookup_* returns NULL
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:55:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vu00kftbq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061127211315.GC18810@admingilde.org> (Martin Waitz's message of "Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:13:15 +0100")

Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> writes:

> All the lookup_{blob,tree,commit} functions check that the object
> really is of the requested type and return NULL otherwise.
> However this NULL pointer is not checked in the calling functions.
>
> Should we make lookup_* to just die when invoked on another object-type?

Making lookup_{specific type} die when they see unexpected type
would not hurt that much, I think, aside from the possibility
that some callers may check NULL to see if object already
exists, but they should be using has_sha1_file() instead.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-27 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-27 21:13 SEGV when lookup_* returns NULL Martin Waitz
2006-11-27 21:55 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-11-27 23:33   ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-28  0:13     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-28  2:23       ` Morten Welinder

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