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Re: svn commit: r23426 - in trunk/subversion: include libsvn_subr

From: Peter Lundblad <plundblad_at_google.com>
Date: 2007-02-20 16:34:20 CET

cmpilato@tigris.org writes:
> Modified: trunk/subversion/include/svn_io.h
> URL: http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn/trunk/subversion/include/svn_io.h?pathrev=23426&r1=23425&r2=23426
> ==============================================================================
> --- trunk/subversion/include/svn_io.h (original)
> +++ trunk/subversion/include/svn_io.h Sat Feb 17 11:30:50 2007
> @@ -732,17 +732,25 @@
>
> /** @} */
>
> -/** Sets @a *result to a string containing the contents of @a filename, a
> - * utf8-encoded path.
> +/** Sets @a *result to a string containing the contents of @a

s/Sets/Set/

> + * filename, which is either "-" (indicating that stdin should be
> + * read) or the utf8-encoded path of a real file.
> + *
> + * @warning Callers should be aware that if a program tries both to
> + * invoke an external editor and to read from stdin, stdin could be
> + * trashed and the editor might act funky or die outright.
> *

Are editors special, or might this apply to other types of programs
that read from stdin as well? ;) Maybe the comment should be a bit
more general?

> - * If @a filename is "-", return the error @c SVN_ERR_UNSUPPORTED_FEATURE
> - * and don't touch @a *result.
> + * @since New in 1.5.
> + */
> +svn_error_t *svn_stringbuf_from_file2(svn_stringbuf_t **result,
> + const char *filename,
> + apr_pool_t *pool);
> +
> +/** Similar to svn_stringbuf_from_file(), except that if @a filename
                                         ^ missing '2'

> + * is "-", return the error @c SVN_ERR_UNSUPPORTED_FEATURE and don't
> + * touch @a *result.
> *
> - * ### Someday, "-" will fill @a *result from stdin. The problem right
> - * now is that if the same command invokes the editor, stdin is crap,
> - * and the editor acts funny or dies outright. One solution is to
> - * disallow stdin reading and invoking the editor, but how to do that
> - * reliably?
> + * @deprecated Provided for backwards compatibility with the 1.2 API.

Should be 'the 1.4 API', since that's the latest API version where it was
not deprecated.

> */
> svn_error_t *svn_stringbuf_from_file(svn_stringbuf_t **result,
> const char *filename,
>
> Modified: trunk/subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c
> URL: http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn/trunk/subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c?pathrev=23426&r1=23425&r2=23426
> ==============================================================================
> --- trunk/subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c (original)
> +++ trunk/subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c Sat Feb 17 11:30:50 2007
> @@ -1582,27 +1582,42 @@
> /* TODO write test for these two functions, then refactor. */
>
> svn_error_t *
> -svn_stringbuf_from_file(svn_stringbuf_t **result,
> - const char *filename,
> - apr_pool_t *pool)
> +svn_stringbuf_from_file2(svn_stringbuf_t **result,
> + const char *filename,
> + apr_pool_t *pool)
> {
> apr_file_t *f = NULL;
>
> if (filename[0] == '-' && filename[1] == '\0')
> - return svn_error_create
> - (SVN_ERR_UNSUPPORTED_FEATURE, NULL,
> - _("Reading from stdin is currently broken, so disabled"));
> -
> - SVN_ERR(svn_io_file_open(&f, filename, APR_READ, APR_OS_DEFAULT, pool));
> + {
> + apr_status_t apr_err;
> + if ((apr_err = apr_file_open_stdin(&f, pool)))
> + return svn_error_wrap_apr(apr_err, "Can't open stdin");

Why not localize this string?

Are there no current users who should be updated to use the new API?

Thanks,
//Peter

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