git-commit-vandalism/pkt-line.h
Jeff King e148542870 pkt-line: move a misplaced comment
The comment describing the packet writing interface was
originally written above packet_write, but migrated to be
above safe_write in f3a3214, probably because it is meant to
generally describe the packet writing interface and not a
single function. Let's move it into the header file, where
users of the interface are more likely to see it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-20 13:42:21 -08:00

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#ifndef PKTLINE_H
#define PKTLINE_H
#include "git-compat-util.h"
#include "strbuf.h"
/*
* Write a packetized stream, where each line is preceded by
* its length (including the header) as a 4-byte hex number.
* A length of 'zero' means end of stream (and a length of 1-3
* would be an error).
*
* This is all pretty stupid, but we use this packetized line
* format to make a streaming format possible without ever
* over-running the read buffers. That way we'll never read
* into what might be the pack data (which should go to another
* process entirely).
*
* The writing side could use stdio, but since the reading
* side can't, we stay with pure read/write interfaces.
*/
void packet_flush(int fd);
void packet_write(int fd, const char *fmt, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 2, 3)));
void packet_buf_flush(struct strbuf *buf);
void packet_buf_write(struct strbuf *buf, const char *fmt, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 2, 3)));
int packet_read_line(int fd, char *buffer, unsigned size);
int packet_read(int fd, char *buffer, unsigned size);
int packet_get_line(struct strbuf *out, char **src_buf, size_t *src_len);
ssize_t safe_write(int, const void *, ssize_t);
#endif