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Re: use of SVN_ERR_ASSERT (was: svn commit: r1302682 ...)

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:33:02 -0400

There you go. r1304079.

You still concerned about SVN_ERR_ASSERT, or was this thread/time for
nothing, and it was really about this one usage?

-g

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 14:13, Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 14:12, Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 13:56, Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de> wrote:
>>> Greg Stein wrote on Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 13:36:27 -0400:
>>>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 13:33, Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de> wrote:
>>>> > Greg Stein wrote on Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 13:19:41 -0400:
>>>> >...
>>>> >> Daniel removed one of these ASSERT uses a day or two ago. My
>>>> >> assumption was that he was referring to that, rather than the ###.
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> > Yes, by "these" I referred to to the use of assert(), abort(), and
>>>> > svn_error__malfunction().
>>>>
>>>> Oh, I definitely don't want to see any assert() or abort() calls. With
>>>> you there.
>>>>
>>>> But if you're suggesting that we stop using SVN_ERR_ASSERT(), then
>>>> that is a much larger question. I see no problem using them. "If we
>>>> don't have what we expect, then we've got big problems."
>>>>
>>>
>>> Huh?  In the code you just added, if I cut your wireless network wire
>>> then your libsvn_ra_serf would raise an assertion.  That's not the
>>> intended use of SVN_ERR_ASSERT().
>>>
>>> Why didn't you write
>>>
>>>  if (status != APR_EOF && status != APR_SUCCESS)
>>>    return svn_error_createf(); /* or svn_error_wrap_apr() */
>>>
>>> ?
>>
>> Did you read the comment just above that? Expediency to get the code
>> written to the point where I could test it.
>>
>> So where is your actual problem? My expedient code, or SVN_ERR_ASSERT?
>> You've been focusing on the latter, so we now have this thread. Which?
>>
>> -g
>
> Oh. And further: it is reading the REQUEST. Not something from the
> network. So you can't just "cut my wireless network"
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