* 64-bit is buggy, returning EINVAL if len >= INT_MAX; and even in
* the absence of bugs, large chunks can result in bad latencies when
* you decide to kill the process.
+ *
+ * We pick 8 MiB as our default, but if the platform defines SSIZE_MAX
+ * that is smaller than that, clip it to SSIZE_MAX, as a call to
+ * read(2) or write(2) larger than that is allowed to fail. As the last
+ * resort, we allow a port to pass via CFLAGS e.g. "-DMAX_IO_SIZE=value"
+ * to override this, if the definition of SSIZE_MAX given by the platform
+ * is broken.
*/
-#define MAX_IO_SIZE (8*1024*1024)
+#ifndef MAX_IO_SIZE
+# define MAX_IO_SIZE_DEFAULT (8*1024*1024)
+# if defined(SSIZE_MAX) && (SSIZE_MAX < MAX_IO_SIZE_DEFAULT)
+# define MAX_IO_SIZE SSIZE_MAX
+# else
+# define MAX_IO_SIZE MAX_IO_SIZE_DEFAULT
+# endif
+#endif
/*
* xread() is the same a read(), but it automatically restarts read()
return rc;
}
+int unlink_or_msg(const char *file, struct strbuf *err)
+{
+ int rc = unlink(file);
+
+ assert(err);
+
+ if (!rc || errno == ENOENT)
+ return 0;
+
+ strbuf_addf(err, "unable to unlink %s: %s",
+ file, strerror(errno));
+ return -1;
+}
+
int unlink_or_warn(const char *file)
{
return warn_if_unremovable("unlink", file, unlink(file));