Re: [PATCH] system_path: use a static buffer

["Carlos Martín Nieto" <cmn@elego.de>]

On vie, 2011-03-18 at 00:25 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:
> 
> > +	ret = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s/%s", prefix, path);
> > +	if (ret >= sizeof(buf))
> > +		die("system path too long for %s", path);
> > +	else if (ret < 0)
> > +		die_errno("encoding error");
> 
> POSIX says snprintf() should set errno in this case, and your use of
> die_errno() would show that information, but what is "encoding error"?
> 
> Just being curious, as I suspect that "snprintf() returned an error" may
> be more appropriate, if the answer is "I don't know what kind of error it
> is, but snprintf() found something faulty while encoding so I chose to
> call it encoding error".


 My manpage says snprintf returns -1 if there was an output or encoding
error. As there couldn't be an output error because it's writing to
memory and we can't output what snprintf chocked on because whatever
die_errno uses will also choke on it, I just put "encoding error". I'd
put "error assembling system path" as the actual error message, I guess.

   cmn