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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: kvik@a-b.xyz, 9front@9front.org
Subject: [9front] [PATCH] syscall: utility overhaul
Date: Sat Sep 19 06:05:27 PDT 2020	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C57616044A37A39E79D151137FF611BF@eigenstate.org> (raw)

Following is a list of functional changes:

* The -o flag outputs the entire buffer to the length returned
  by the syscall, or, in case of fd2path(2) and errstr(2), to '\0'.
* The -x flag is removed; the above makes it possible to pipe
  into xd(1) to get the same result.
* The -s flag uses dirfmt(2) to format the stat message, instead
  of trying to imitate ls(1).
* Stderr reports are normalized and made easier to parse.

The code also suffered a number of stylistic changes.

diff -r d947a4c5d7fa sys/man/1/syscall
--- a/sys/man/1/syscall	Thu Sep 03 20:07:44 2020 -0700
+++ b/sys/man/1/syscall	Sat Sep 19 15:04:17 2020 +0200

+		switch(i){
+		case _ERRSTR: case ERRSTR: case FD2PATH:
+			nbuf = strlen(buf);
 		}

Is buf guaranteed to be nul terminated here? I think
we're likely to be ok here, but I'd be more comfortable
if we had the last byte explicitly set before calling
strlen.

Other than that, it lkooks good to me.



             reply	other threads:[~2020-09-20  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-19 13:05 ori [this message]
2020-09-20  0:07 ` ori
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2020-09-19 13:05 kvik
2020-09-20 13:01 ` [9front] " Ethan Gardener
2020-09-20 13:13   ` kvik

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