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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>
Cc: "Johannes Sixt" <j6t@kdbg.org>,
	"Nicolas Pitre" <nico@fluxnic.net>,
	"Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón via GitGitGadget"
	<gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] progress: pay attention to (customized) delay time
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:50:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8qj7qlqf.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jq5ul4zwdex6peuub3upwzxz3d5zcnuh7adseyg6wa6dpiu4ci@fuwe2t2vbguo> ("Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón"'s message of "Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:11:21 -0700")

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 10:00:25AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> >  	struct strbuf *counters_sb = &progress->counters_sb;
>> >  	int show_update = 0;
>> > +	sig_atomic_t update = progress_update;
>> 
>> It is somewhat misleading to use sig_atomic_t for "update", which is
>> never updated via the signal handler.  It confused me a bit during
>> my initial reading.  If it were
>> 
>> 	int update = !!progress_update;
>> 
>> it would have made it more obvious what is going on, at least to me.
>
> In that case, I would suggest doing instead:
>
>   bool update = !!progress_update;

Any conventional type we would use for "is it set or not?" that is
not sig_atomic_t is good enough in this context.

The fact that we started adopting "bool" in new code is orthogonal
and a bit off the point.

  reply	other threads:[~2025-08-25 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-23 13:22 [PATCH 0/2] progress: replace setitimer() with alarm() Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón via GitGitGadget
2025-08-23 13:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón via GitGitGadget
2025-08-23 13:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] progress: add a shutting down state to the SIGALRM handler Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón via GitGitGadget
2025-08-23 16:24 ` [PATCH 0/2] progress: replace setitimer() with alarm() Johannes Sixt
2025-08-23 19:38   ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2025-08-23 19:55     ` Johannes Sixt
2025-08-23 21:33   ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-23 21:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-23 22:03     ` Johannes Sixt
2025-08-24 15:31       ` [PATCH] progress: pay attention to (customized) delay time Johannes Sixt
2025-08-25 17:00         ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-25 18:11           ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2025-08-25 18:50             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2025-08-25 19:16               ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Sixt
2025-08-25 22:52                 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-24 16:11       ` [PATCH 0/2] progress: replace setitimer() with alarm() Junio C Hamano

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