The `block_source_read_block()` function and its implementations return
an integer as a result that reflects either the number of bytes read, or
an error. As such its return type, a signed integer, isn't wrong, but it
doesn't give the reader a good hint what it actually returns.
Refactor the function to return an `ssize_t` instead, which is typical
for functions similar to read(3p) and should thus give readers a better
signal what they can expect as a result.
Adjust callers to better handle the returned value to avoid warnings
with -Wsign-compare. One of these callers is `reader_get_block()`, whose
return value is only ever used by its callers to figure out whether or
not the read was successful. So instead of bubbling up the `ssize_t`
there, too, we adapt it to only indicate success or errors.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The block length is used to track the number of bytes available in a
specific block. As such, it is never set to a negative value, but is
still represented by a signed integer.
Adjust the type of the variable to be `size_t`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The reftable format is usually used with files for storage. However, we abstract
away this using the blocksource data structure. This has two advantages:
* log blocks are zlib compressed, and handling them is simplified if we can
discard byte segments from within the block layer.
* for unittests, it is useful to read and write in-memory. The blocksource
allows us to abstract the data away from on-disk files.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
