On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:27:47AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while continuing my work on the obstructed checkout patch I just
> updated to the new `svn_client_list4` call, which introduced a
> new `patterns` parameter. I initially run into a `NULL` pointer
> derefeernce, as I expected that the patterns parameter may also
> be `NULL`, as it is often the case for parameters which are not
> in use.
>
> The attached patch changes the function to accept a `NULL`
> argument for `parameters` in addition to an empty array, which is
> mostly a convenience/consistency thing for callers of the new
> function.
>
> Regards
> Patrick
I agree with this semantic API change.
Should this patch not also adjust the docstring for svn_client_list4()
in the file subversion/include/svn_client.h?
>
> [[[
> svn_client_list4: accept `NULL` patterns
>
> The recently introduced `svn_client_list4` introduced a new
> parameter `patterns`, which can be used to filter listed paths.
> When an empty pattern array is passed to the function, all paths
> are being reported.
>
> In the case where a caller does not want to filter the list,
> he first has to create an empty array. Improve usability by also
> allowing a caller to pass in a `NULL` pointer instead of an empty
> array.
>
> * subversion/libsvn_repos/list.c:
> (matches_any): Return `TRUE` if `patterns` is `NULL`
> ]]]
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> diff --git a/subversion/libsvn_repos/list.c b/subversion/libsvn_repos/list.c
> index d52e193..47d92a5 100644
> --- a/subversion/libsvn_repos/list.c
> +++ b/subversion/libsvn_repos/list.c
> @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ matches_any(const char *dirname,
> apr_array_header_t *patterns)
> {
> int i;
> - if (!patterns->nelts)
> + if (!patterns || !patterns->nelts)
> return TRUE;
>
> for (i = 0; i < patterns->nelts; ++i)
Received on 2016-11-09 14:05:54 CET