Re: [PATCH 4/6] dir.c::match_pathname(): pay attention to the length of string parameters

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 09:44:32AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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With the merge-fix, fnmatch_icase_mem() calls into wildmatch(), but
fnmatch_icase() still calls into fnmatch().

The latter's flags are meant to be taken from FNM_* family, but the
former takes flags from WM_* family of bits, no?

Yeah, that does not seem right. If match_pathname has learned to call
into wildmatch instead of fnmatch_icase in the interim, then the right
resolution is to convert its call to fnmatch_icase_mem to a new
wildmatch_mem.  Presumably that can be done by either tweaking
fnmatch_icase_mem, or, if wildmatch is ready to take counted strings,
calling into it with the right options.

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I think you are running with USE_WILDMATCH which may make the
differences harder to notice, but the name fnmatch_icase_mem() that is
not in the same family as fnmatch but is from the wildmatch() family
smells like an accident waiting to happen.

Agreed.

This may be just the matter of naming.

It smelled wrong to me only because the "fnmatch" in the helper
fnmatch_icase_mem() told me that it should forever use fnmatch
semantics.  After reading its (only) two callsites, they are both
"the caller has transformed the inputs to this lowest level pathname
vs pattern matching function in order to reduce the cost of
matching, and now it is time to exercise the matcher".  The only
thing they care about is that they are calling "the lowest level
pathname vs pattern matching function."

If we pronounce "fnmatch_icase_mem()" as "match_path_with_pattern()"
or something in the original series, the problem may go away ;-)

Does any caller pass FNM_* bits to a callchain that reach the new *_mem()
function?