Re: [PATCH 1/2] config: check if config path is a file before parsing it

On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 05:29:47PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

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But I do think option (a) is cleaner. The only trick is that for errno
to be valid, we need to make sure we check ferror() soon after seeing
the EOF return value. I suspect it would work OK in practice for the
git_config_from_file() case.

stdio error handling is a pain. Maybe we're better of with open() and
mmap() (or even read_in_full)? I/O error handling would be at the
beginning, not buried deep in the parser. Hmm.. since we already have
"fgetc' version for config blobs, this could kill some code...

Yeah, I don't mind a read_in_full() version. Config isn't _supposed_ to
be big (and if it is you're in trouble anyway, because I'm pretty sure
we still parse it several times per command invocation).

I don't think that removes the issues I've mentioned with
git_config_from_file() being too quiet. But it solves the ferror()
question (though I think we pretty much return immediately from the
parser on EOF, so it's _probably_ OK to use it like in the diff I just
sent).

-Peff