Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> writes: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: >> The inconsistency may not hurt as long as (1) the producers of the >> message will never stuff a NUL in the middle, and (2) strbuf always >> has the guard NUL after its contents. Even though we know that the >> latter will hold true for the foreseeable future, it also is easy to >> do the right thing here, too, so why not? > > What is the right thing? I asked myself and obviously it is treating the > child->err the same in both cases of checking for a trailing LF and > when outputting. > > But what is the right way to look at child->err? I would argue that > we should allow for children to have a NUL in its output stream and > replay their output as literal as possible. > > i.e. my conclusion is to replace the fputs by fwrite as opposed to > using strlen to determine the length of string output.
Yup, that is what I meant; sorry if I were too oblique. There are two fputs() that assumes there is no embedded NUL around there, by the way. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
