Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] http-backend: respect CONTENT_LENGTH as specified by rfc3875

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

To recap (other than the typofix in the proposed log message), here
is what I would have as SQUASH??? on top of (or interspersed with)
v6.

Thanks.

diff --git a/http-backend.c b/http-backend.c
index 69570d16e7..2268d65731 100644
--- a/http-backend.c
+++ b/http-backend.c
@@ -324,10 +324,9 @@ static ssize_t read_request_fixed_len(int fd, ssize_t req_len, unsigned char **o
 	ssize_t cnt = 0;
 
 	if (max_request_buffer < req_len) {
-		die("request was larger than our maximum size (%lu): %lu;"
-			    " try setting GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUEST_BUFFER",
-			    max_request_buffer,
-			    req_len);
+		die("request was larger than our maximum size (%lu): "
+		    "%" PRIuMAX "; try setting GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUEST_BUFFER",
+		    max_request_buffer, (uintmax_t)req_len);
 	}
 
 	if (req_len <= 0) {

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e61f8319b3..3380f68040 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-mktemp
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-online-cpus
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-parse-options
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-path-utils
-TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-print-values
+TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-print-larger-than-ssize
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-prio-queue
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-read-cache
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-write-cache

diff --git a/t/helper/test-print-values.c b/t/helper/test-print-larger-than-ssize.c
similarity index 31%
rename from t/helper/test-print-values.c
rename to t/helper/test-print-larger-than-ssize.c
index 8f7e5af319..b9852c493d 100644
--- a/t/helper/test-print-values.c
+++ b/t/helper/test-print-larger-than-ssize.c
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <string.h>
+#include "cache.h"
 
 int cmd_main(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
-	if (argc == 2 && strcmp(argv[1], "(size_t)(-20)") == 0)
-		printf("%zu", (ssize_t)(-20));
+	size_t large = ~0;
 
+	large = ~(large & ~(large >> 1)) + 1;
+	printf("%" PRIuMAX "\n", (uintmax_t) large);
 	return 0;
 }

diff --git a/t/t5560-http-backend-noserver.sh b/t/t5560-http-backend-noserver.sh
index f452090216..112b5d6eb2 100755
--- a/t/t5560-http-backend-noserver.sh
+++ b/t/t5560-http-backend-noserver.sh
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ test_expect_success 'http-backend blocks bad PATH_INFO' '
 '
 
 # overrides existing definition for further cases
-run_backend() {
+run_backend () {
 	CONTENT_LENGTH="${#2}" && export CONTENT_LENGTH &&
 	( echo "$2" && cat /dev/zero ) |
 	QUERY_STRING="${1#*[?]}" \
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ test_expect_success 'CONTENT_LENGTH set and infinite input' '
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'CONTENT_LENGTH overflow ssite_t' '
-	NOT_FIT_IN_SSIZE=`"$GIT_BUILD_DIR/t/helper/test-print-values" "(size_t)(-20)"` &&
+	NOT_FIT_IN_SSIZE=$("$GIT_BUILD_DIR/t/helper/test-print-larger-than-ssize") &&
 	env \
 		CONTENT_TYPE=application/x-git-upload-pack-request \
 		QUERY_STRING=/repo.git/git-upload-pack \