Nicolas Pitre <n...@fluxnic.net> writes:

> It is not buffered as it writes to stderr. And some C libs do separate 
> calls to write() for every string format specifier. So "%s%s%c" may end 
> up calling write() 3 times depending on the implementation.  The example 
> I gave in commit ed1902ef5c is real and I even observed it with strace 
> back then.

I think you meant 9ac13ec9 (atomic write for sideband remote
messages, 2006-10-11).

IIRC, back then we did't use to make as much use of strbuf API as we
do today; if we were doing that commit today, we would be doing
strbuf, I would suspect.
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