linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fread does not return negative on error

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Message-ID: <20090624121226.GA20564@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:12:26 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Christian Couder <christian.couder@...il.com>
Cc:	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>,
	René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@...fire.ath.cx>,
	roel kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>, git@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fread does not return negative on error


* Christian Couder <christian.couder@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Ingo Molnar<mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> >
> > * Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com> wrote:
> >
> >> René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@...fire.ath.cx> writes:
> >>
> >> > the following patch is for git.  I just removed the unneeded check for
> >> > res == 0 from your version.  Does it look OK?
> >>
> >> The patch looks good, and both of our in-tree users do error out
> >> when the returned value is 0 (imap-send.c checks with "<= 0" which
> >> looks a tad amateurish, though) correctly.
> >>
> >> Funny, there is no caller of this function in the original context
> >> this bug originally found, which I think is linux-2.6/tools/perf
> >> ;-).
> >
> > Hehe, yes :-)
> >
> > Background: when creating tools/perf/ i cherry-picked all the nice
> > Git libraries into tools/perf/util/, to give a standard environment
> > for all tooling things that might come up in the future.
> >
> > Some of those are not used yet but it looked more logical to pick up
> > whole pieces - some already gained uses. For example config.c is not
> > truly used yet, but very much expected to have a role in the future.
> >
> > ( The only invasive thing i had to do was the s/git_/perf_/ mass
> >  rename across all the files - having 'git_' in perf looked
> >  quite confusing. )
> >
> > And our general experience with the Git libraries in
> > tools/perf/util/* is: we love them!
> >
> > For example parse-options.c is a striking improvement compared to
> > getopt.h we used before, and all the other facilities are sane and
> > straight to the point as well. So in this sense 'perf' is an ...
> > interesting cross-discipline 'fork' of Git's generic libraries.
> >
> > The auto-generation of everything out of Documentation/*.txt is
> > another thing we picked up, and that's very nice too.
> >
> > One bookeeping issue: i found few explicit credits in those files -
> > so i noted in the changelog that i took them from Git and i noted
> > the specific upstream Git sha1 when i copied them. Would be nice to
> > update each file with names to make credit more explicit:
> 
> >From http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=tree;f=tools/perf;hb=HEAD
>
> it looks like there may be some other files like builtin-help.c 
> (and perhaps some files in perf/Documentation/ too though there 
> should be some AUTHOR information already in them).

Correct - the makefile and the whole glue code (and much else!) 
comes from Git - see commits:

 0780060: perf_counter tools: add in basic glue from Git
 d24e473: perf_counter: copy in Git's top Makefile

Any suggestions about how best credit everyone there? One central 
linux/tools/perf/CREDITS file?

	Ingo
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