do not check odb_mkstemp return value for errors

The odb_mkstemp function does not return an error; it dies
on failure instead. But many of its callers compare the
resulting descriptor against -1 and die themselves.

Mostly this is just pointless, but it does raise a question
when looking at the callers: if they show the results of the
"template" buffer after a failure, what's in it? The answer
is: it doesn't matter, because it cannot happen.

So let's make that clear by removing the bogus error checks.
In bitmap_writer_finish(), we can drop the error-handling
code entirely. In the other two cases, it's shared with the
open() in another code path; we can just move the
error-check next to that open() call.

And while we're at it, let's flesh out the function's
docstring a bit to make the error behavior clear.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
This commit is contained in:
Jeff King
2017-03-28 15:45:25 -04:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent e1104a5ee5
commit 892e723afd
4 changed files with 10 additions and 8 deletions

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@ -1674,7 +1674,10 @@ extern struct packed_git *find_sha1_pack(const unsigned char *sha1,
extern void pack_report(void);
/*
* Create a temporary file rooted in the object database directory.
* Create a temporary file rooted in the object database directory, or
* die on failure. The filename is taken from "pattern", which should have the
* usual "XXXXXX" trailer, and the resulting filename is written into the
* "template" buffer. Returns the open descriptor.
*/
extern int odb_mkstemp(char *template, size_t limit, const char *pattern);