From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: "Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>,
"Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/WIP PATCH 06/11] remote.h: add get_remote_capabilities, request_capabilities
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 16:09:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150527200924.GA14309@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQUtjVbdF5eEo0EH-QXz4q_UqOtoFZ5DcTNzceCxWLS=A@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:19:39PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> >> The 'len > 4' check is needed because there's no guarantee that 'line'
> >> is NUL-terminated. Correct?
> >
> > I think this was just blindly copied from get_remote_heads(). And I
> > think that code was being overly paranoid. Ever since f3a3214 (Make
> > send/receive-pack be closer to doing something interesting, 2005-06-29),
> > the pkt-line reader will add an extra NUL to the buffer to ease cases
> > like this.
>
> Thanks. I had started digging into packet_read() to determine whether
> it guaranteed NUL-termination, but didn't get far enough to decide. I
> agree that if NUL-termination is guaranteed, then the 'len > 4' check
> is superfluous (and confusing, which is why it caught my attention in
> the first place).
Yeah, agreed that it should be cleaned up. Interestingly, if you dig on
that line, I've touched it several times myself and never noticed this.
:)
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-27 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-26 22:01 [RFC/WIP PATCH 00/11] Protocol version 2, again! Stefan Beller
2015-05-26 22:01 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 01/11] upload-pack: make client capability parsing code a separate function Stefan Beller
2015-05-26 22:01 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 02/11] upload-pack: only accept capabilities on the first "want" line Stefan Beller
2015-05-26 22:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-26 22:20 ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-26 22:01 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 03/11] upload-pack: move capabilities out of send_ref Stefan Beller
2015-05-26 22:01 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 04/11] upload-pack-2: Implement the version 2 of upload-pack Stefan Beller
2015-05-27 2:30 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-27 6:35 ` Jeff King
2015-05-27 17:30 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-27 20:14 ` Jeff King
2015-05-27 17:40 ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-27 20:34 ` Jeff King
2015-05-27 20:45 ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-27 21:46 ` Jeff King
2015-05-26 22:01 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 05/11] transport: add infrastructure to support a protocol version number Stefan Beller
2015-05-27 6:39 ` Jeff King
2015-05-27 19:01 ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-27 20:17 ` Jeff King
2015-05-27 19:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-26 22:01 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 06/11] remote.h: add get_remote_capabilities, request_capabilities Stefan Beller
2015-05-27 3:25 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-27 6:50 ` Jeff King
2015-05-27 17:19 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-27 20:09 ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-05-27 6:45 ` Jeff King
2015-05-29 19:39 ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-29 22:08 ` Jeff King
2015-05-26 22:01 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 07/11] fetch-pack: use the configured transport protocol Stefan Beller
2015-05-26 22:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-26 22:23 ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-27 6:53 ` Jeff King
2015-05-26 22:01 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 08/11] transport: connect_setup appends protocol version number Stefan Beller
2015-05-26 22:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-26 22:31 ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-27 5:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-27 6:56 ` Jeff King
2015-05-27 3:33 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-27 7:02 ` Jeff King
2015-05-26 22:01 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 09/11] transport: get_refs_via_connect exchanges capabilities before refs Stefan Beller
2015-05-27 5:37 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-27 7:06 ` Jeff King
2015-05-26 22:01 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 10/11] t5544: add a test case for the new protocol Stefan Beller
2015-05-27 5:34 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-27 7:12 ` Jeff King
2015-05-26 22:01 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 11/11] Document protocol version 2 Stefan Beller
2015-05-29 20:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-29 21:36 ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-29 21:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-29 22:21 ` Jeff King
2015-06-01 23:14 ` Stefan Beller
2015-06-01 23:40 ` Stefan Beller
2015-06-04 13:18 ` Jeff King
2015-06-04 17:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-02 17:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-27 6:18 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 00/11] Protocol version 2, again! Jeff King
2015-05-27 7:08 ` Jeff King
2015-06-01 17:49 ` Stefan Beller
2015-06-02 10:10 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-06-04 13:09 ` Jeff King
2015-06-04 16:44 ` Stefan Beller
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