On 04/06/2018 02:18 PM, Mark Michelson wrote:
On 04/06/2018 12:28 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 10:16:24AM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
In some environments, builds would fail with the following error:
lib/stopwatch.c: In function ‘stopwatch_exit’:
lib/stopwatch.c:448:5: error: ignoring return value of ‘write’,
declared
with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
write(stopwatch_pipe[1], &pkt, sizeof pkt);
This patch explicitly ignores the return value of write().
This also fixes some minor coding style issues.
Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <[email protected]>
Obviously I didn't review this as carefully as I should have. That's on
me. I apologize.
I believe that we already have a proper abstraction for what's going on
here: a latch. The latch implementation also hides differences between
Unix and Windows (which this inline implementation isn't doing). Would
you mind making this use latch.h instead of raw pipes?
Would you mind breaking the style issues into a separate commit?
Thanks,
Ben.
Hi Ben,
Thanks for pointing out the latch library. I'll post the patch with this
change.
Mark!
I just had a look, and unfortunately, the current code doesn't translate
directly to a latch. The reason is that you can't control the data that
is sent to and read from the latch. It's essentially a boolean of "set"
or "not set". In the current stopwatch implementation, data packets are
written to the pipe and that data is then read by another thread. The
actual data is important in this case.
You're 100% right that this needs to handle the Windows case. One idea I
have is to create a cross-platform "pipe" library. Then the latch
library and the stopwatch library can be built on top of the pipe
library. What do you think about that?
Mark!
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