Re: [PATCH 2/4] archive-zip: remove unneccesarry condition in write_zip_entry()

["René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>]

On 8/4/25 6:56 PM, Toon Claes wrote:
> The function write_or_die() can handle a length that's zero, thus we can
> remove the condition that checks the value of `out_len` that surrounds
> this call. The value shall never be negative as this would have caused
> data being omitted in the deflated output.
> 
> Co-authored-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
> ---
>  archive-zip.c | 7 ++-----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/archive-zip.c b/archive-zip.c
> index cc6d0cadd9..d41a12de5f 100644
> --- a/archive-zip.c
> +++ b/archive-zip.c
> @@ -478,11 +478,8 @@ static int write_zip_entry(struct archiver_args *args,
>  				die(_("deflate error (%d)"), result);
>  			out_len = zstream.next_out - compressed;
>  
> -			if (out_len > 0) {
> -				write_or_die(1, compressed, out_len);
> -				compressed_size += out_len;
> -			}
> -
> +			write_or_die(1, compressed, out_len);
> +			compressed_size += out_len;
>  		}
>  		close_istream(stream);
>  		if (readlen)
> 

OK, less lines again, great!  write_or_die() handles out_len == 0
just fine; this won't increase the number of syscalls we make.

René