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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: "Martin Ettl" <ettl.martin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: found a resource leak in file builtin-fast-export.c
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 10:31:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907091031.43494.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090709075728.137880@gmx.net>

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Hi Martin

Martin Ettl wrote:
> 
> I have attached a patch to resolve this.

Please read Documentation/SubmittingPatches in the source tree.  And
use git to track git.git!

As for the actual patch:

> --- git-1.6.3.3/builtin-fast-export.c	2009-06-22 08:24:25.000000000 +0200
> +++ git-1.6.3.3/builtin-fast-export_new.c	2009-07-09 09:44:28.000000000 +0200
> @@ -442,8 +442,9 @@ static void export_marks(char *file)
>  		deco++;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (ferror(f) || fclose(f))
> +	if (ferror(f))
>  		error("Unable to write marks file %s.", file);
> +  	fclose(f);

You no longer check the error returned by fclose().  This is
important, because the FILE* API may buffer writes, and a write error
may only become apparent when fclose() flushes the file.

>  }
>  
>  static void import_marks(char *input_file)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-09  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-09  7:57 found a resource leak in file builtin-fast-export.c Martin Ettl
2009-07-09  8:31 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2009-07-09 11:04   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-07-09 11:24     ` Thomas Rast
2009-07-09 11:30       ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-07-09 13:01       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-07-09 13:28         ` [PATCH] Fix export_marks() error handling Matthias Andree
2009-07-11  9:45           ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2009-07-13  8:01             ` Matthias Andree
2009-07-09 13:36         ` found a resource leak in file builtin-fast-export.c Matthias Andree

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