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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: fetch_refs_via_pack() discards status?
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:06:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vwsrsonqm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712051356040.5349@iabervon.org> (Daniel Barkalow's message of "Wed, 5 Dec 2007 14:16:04 -0500 (EST)")

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> The code calls fetch_pack() to get the list of refs it fetched, and
>> discards refs and always returns 0 to signal success.
>> 
>> But builtin-fetch-pack.c::fetch_pack() has error cases.  The function
>> returns NULL if error is detected (shallow-support side seems to choose
>> to die but I suspect that is easily fixable to error out as well).
>> 
>> Shouldn't fetch_refs_via_pack() propagate that error to the caller?
>
> I think that's right. I think I got as far as having the error status from 
> fetch_pack() actually returned correctly, and then failed to look at it. 
> I'd personally avoid testing a pointer to freed memory, but that's 
> obviously not actually wrong.
>
> 	-Daniel

Hmph, is that an Ack that the patchlet is actually a bugfix?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-05 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-22  0:59 [PATCH] Fix segmentation fault when user doesn't have access permission to the repository André Goddard Rosa
2007-11-22 16:09 ` Alex Riesen
2007-11-22 22:27   ` André Goddard Rosa
2007-11-25 21:39     ` [Resend PATCH] " André Goddard Rosa
2007-11-30 21:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-05  7:01         ` fetch_refs_via_pack() discards status? Junio C Hamano
2007-12-05 19:16           ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-12-05 21:06             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-12-06  0:38               ` André Goddard Rosa
2007-12-06 14:09               ` Daniel Barkalow

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