On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> wrote: >>> In case the length of the buffer is zero, we do not need to call the >>> fwrite system call as a performance improvement. >> >> fwrite is a libc call, not system call. Are you sure it always calls >> write() (assuming buffering is off)? > > I do not think so, but I suspect that the patch misstates its > rationale (I said I get uncomfortable every time I see a function > that takes size and nelem separately used by a caller that can > potentially pass nleme=0, when I wondered it it is OK that no caller > of this funtion checks its return value). >
This is exactly what happened. I assumed fwrite would be a system call eventually. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
