Re: [PATCH v2] Submodule merge support

[Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>]

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hoi :)

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:20:05AM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > @@ -574,6 +575,21 @@ static void update_file_flags(const unsigned char *sha,
> >  		void *buf;
> >  		unsigned long size;
> >  
> > +		if (S_ISDIRLNK(mode)) {
> > +			/* defer dirlinks to another process, don't try to */
> > +			/* read the object "sha" here */
> > +			const char *dirlink_checkout[] = {
> > +				"dirlink-checkout", path, sha1_to_hex(sha), NULL
> > +			};
> > +			struct child_process cmd = {
> > +				.argv = dirlink_checkout,
> > +				.git_cmd = 1,
> > +			};
> 
> My Solaris 9 system cannot compile this syntax, even though it is
> a clean way to initalize the child_process.

any special thing it does not like in the above code or does it just
not support structs that are initialized that way?

> > +	status = read(cmd.out, hex, sizeof(hex));
> > +	if (status != 40) return status;
> 
> OK, this is probably just never trusting the OS, but shouldn't that
> read be wrapped up in a loop, like our read_in_full?  We want 40
> bytes here, and expect it, and the read call is allowed to return
> as few as 1 byte....

right.

-- 
Martin Waitz

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