Re: [PATCHv2 04/10] pkt-line: change error message for oversized packet

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 01:25:35PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > But it's easy to do (1), and it starts the clock ticking for
> > the 1000-byte readers to become obsolete.
> 
> Yup, I agree with that goal.

Having just looked at the pkt-line callers a lot, I think most of them
could go for something like:

  char *packet_read(int fd, unsigned *len_p)
  {
          static char buffer[LARGE_PACKET_MAX];
          int len;

          len = packet_read_to_buf(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer));
          if (len < 0)
                  return NULL;

          *len_p = len;
          return buffer;
  }

That would actually simplify the callers a bit, and would harmonize the
buffer sizes at the same time. I'll look into doing a series tonight.

-Peff