Re: [PATCH 1/5] tempfile: add repo_create_tempfile{,_mode}()

[Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 07:59:52PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:
> Add variants of create_tempfile_mode() that handle arbitrary
> repositories.

One thing I was wondering is whether it really makes sense to pass in a
full repository. All we require it for is `adjust_shared_perm()`, and it
feels quite extreme to require a full-blown repository.

An alternative would be to let callers pass in the setting by
themselves, but that would likely lead to lots of duplicated code. So
maybe this is a good first step, and we could eventually create another
API where users can pass in the configuration instead of a repository if
we ever gain callers that don't have a repository available.

> diff --git a/tempfile.c b/tempfile.c
> index f0fdf58279..3132eb4371 100644
> --- a/tempfile.c
> +++ b/tempfile.c
> @@ -135,6 +135,12 @@ static void deactivate_tempfile(struct tempfile *tempfile)
>  
>  /* Make sure errno contains a meaningful value on error */
>  struct tempfile *create_tempfile_mode(const char *path, int mode)
> +{
> +	return repo_create_tempfile_mode(the_repository, path, mode);
> +}

Nit: We could've easily created this as an inline function in
"tempfile.h". But I expect that we'll get mostly rid of this function in
subssubsequent patches, so it probably doesn't matter too much.

Patrick