Re: config.c fixes

["Kristian Høgsberg" <krh@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 11:43 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > While strace'ing builtin-clone I saw this horror:
> > I think the best solution is to just parse up the entire config file
> > up front and keep it in a data structure, make the changes and then
> > write it all out at the end.
> 
> Yeah, that was what I suggested a few times when other people have done
> config writing side, but without successfully getting past their skulls
> (it is not Linus's nor my code).  It's about time somebody started to
> clean up that mess.
> 
> The timing is a bit unfortunate, though.  I would have preferred to have
> a week or so to cook this in 'next' before merging it part of -rc0.

Right, what I was describing above was more of a long term thing.  I
sent two patches more suitable for 1.5.4 that fixes the double close and
the 1-byte writes in a less intrusive way.  Except as the Johanneses
point out, I can't use the lock as a local variable, but must allocate
so the atexit handler doesn't break.  If it has to be allocated, the API
should help/enforce that.  I've sent out a couple of new patches that
fixes this.

Kristian