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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] merge-file: correctly find files when called in subdir
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:05:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101017160546.GD301@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010171239.13990.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast wrote:

> I was ready to say "you're right" to Bert's suggestion.  So maybe, for
> the sake of foolproof-ness, we should do something like the patch
> below?
> 
> diff --git i/setup.c w/setup.c
> index a3b76de..7c8906d 100644
> --- i/setup.c
> +++ w/setup.c
> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
>  	/* don't add prefix to absolute paths, but still replace '\' by '/' */
>  	if (is_absolute_path(arg))
>  		pfx_len = 0;
> -	else
> +	else if (pfx && *pfx)
>  		memcpy(path, pfx, pfx_len);
>  	strcpy(path + pfx_len, arg);
>  	for (p = path + pfx_len; *p; p++)

Yes, please!  But I'd write it as

	if (pfx_len)
		memcpy(...)

and rely on the commit message to explain that this is about the !pfx
case (so callers with pfx_len == 3, !pfx get a nice, quick segfault
instead of heisenbugs from uninitialized data).

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-17 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-16 11:33 [PATCH] merge-file: correctly find files when called in subdir Thomas Rast
2010-10-16 13:30 ` Bert Wesarg
2010-10-17  1:11   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-17 10:39     ` Thomas Rast
2010-10-17 16:05       ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-10-17 19:23         ` [PATCH v2 1/2] prefix_filename(): safely handle the case where pfx_len=0 Thomas Rast
2010-10-17 19:23           ` [PATCH v2 2/2] merge-file: correctly find files when called in subdir Thomas Rast
2010-10-17 19:59             ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-18  6:10             ` Johannes Sixt
2010-10-17  1:30 ` [PATCH] " Jonathan Nieder

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