On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, Lukas Fleischer wrote:

> Improve the readability of recv_sideband() significantly by replacing
> fragile buffer manipulations with more sophisticated format strings.
> Also, reorganize the overall control flow, remove some superfluous
> variables and replace a custom implementation of strpbrk() with a call
> to the standard C library function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <lfleisc...@lfos.de>

The previous code was a total abomination, even if I happen to know who 
wrote it.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <n...@fluxnic.net>

> I had a really hard time reading and understanding this function when I
> came up with my last patch. What I ended up with is almost a complete
> rewrite of recv_sideband() and I find the end result to be much more
> readable than what we have now. Given that this is quite invasive, it
> would be good to have some more eyes and opinions...
> 
> If you want me to split this patch into smaller changes, please let me
> know. However, finding a good way to split this into logical changes
> might not be easy given that the new code does not have much in common
> with what we had before.

Indeed. Anyway, numbers speak for themselves:

>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sideband.c b/sideband.c
> index fde8adc..0a078c3 100644
> --- a/sideband.c
> +++ b/sideband.c
> @@ -13,103 +13,69 @@
>   * the remote died unexpectedly.  A flush() concludes the stream.
>   */
>  
> -#define PREFIX "remote:"
> +#define PREFIX "remote: "
>  
>  #define ANSI_SUFFIX "\033[K"
>  #define DUMB_SUFFIX "        "
>  
> -#define FIX_SIZE 10  /* large enough for any of the above */
> -
>  int recv_sideband(const char *me, int in_stream, int out)
>  {
> -     unsigned pf = strlen(PREFIX);
> -     unsigned sf;
> -     char buf[LARGE_PACKET_MAX + 2*FIX_SIZE];
> -     char *suffix, *term;
> -     int skip_pf = 0;
> +     const char *term;
> +     const char *prefix = PREFIX, *suffix;
> +     char buf[LARGE_PACKET_MAX + 1];
> +     const char *b, *brk;
>  
> -     memcpy(buf, PREFIX, pf);
>       term = getenv("TERM");
>       if (isatty(2) && term && strcmp(term, "dumb"))
>               suffix = ANSI_SUFFIX;
>       else
>               suffix = DUMB_SUFFIX;
> -     sf = strlen(suffix);
>  
>       while (1) {
>               int band, len;
> -             len = packet_read(in_stream, NULL, NULL, buf + pf, 
> LARGE_PACKET_MAX, 0);
> +             len = packet_read(in_stream, NULL, NULL, buf, LARGE_PACKET_MAX, 
> 0);
>               if (len == 0)
>                       break;
>               if (len < 1) {
>                       fprintf(stderr, "%s: protocol error: no band 
> designator\n", me);
>                       return SIDEBAND_PROTOCOL_ERROR;
>               }
> -             band = buf[pf] & 0xff;
> +             band = buf[0] & 0xff;
> +             buf[len] = '\0';
>               len--;
>               switch (band) {
>               case 3:
> -                     buf[pf] = ' ';
> -                     buf[pf+1+len] = '\0';
> -                     fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", buf);
> +                     fprintf(stderr, "%s%s\n", PREFIX, buf + 1);
>                       return SIDEBAND_REMOTE_ERROR;
>               case 2:
> -                     buf[pf] = ' ';
> -                     do {
> -                             char *b = buf;
> -                             int brk = 0;
> -
> -                             /*
> -                              * If the last buffer didn't end with a line
> -                              * break then we should not print a prefix
> -                              * this time around.
> -                              */
> -                             if (skip_pf) {
> -                                     b += pf+1;
> -                             } else {
> -                                     len += pf+1;
> -                                     brk += pf+1;
> -                             }
> +                     b = buf + 1;
>  
> -                             /* Look for a line break. */
> -                             for (;;) {
> -                                     brk++;
> -                                     if (brk > len) {
> -                                             brk = 0;
> -                                             break;
> -                                     }
> -                                     if (b[brk-1] == '\n' ||
> -                                         b[brk-1] == '\r')
> -                                             break;
> -                             }
> +                     /*
> +                      * Append a suffix to each nonempty line to clear the
> +                      * end of the screen line.
> +                      */
> +                     while ((brk = strpbrk(b, "\n\r"))) {
> +                             int linelen = brk - b;
>  
> -                             /*
> -                              * Let's insert a suffix to clear the end
> -                              * of the screen line if a line break was
> -                              * found.  Also, if we don't skip the
> -                              * prefix, then a non-empty string must be
> -                              * present too.
> -                              */
> -                             if (brk > (skip_pf ? 0 : (pf+1 + 1))) {
> -                                     char save[FIX_SIZE];
> -                                     memcpy(save, b + brk, sf);
> -                                     b[brk + sf - 1] = b[brk - 1];
> -                                     memcpy(b + brk - 1, suffix, sf);
> -                                     fprintf(stderr, "%.*s", brk + sf, b);
> -                                     memcpy(b + brk, save, sf);
> -                                     len -= brk;
> +                             if (linelen > 0) {
> +                                     fprintf(stderr, "%s%.*s%s%c", prefix,
> +                                             linelen, b, suffix, *brk);
>                               } else {
> -                                     int l = brk ? brk : len;
> -                                     fprintf(stderr, "%.*s", l, b);
> -                                     len -= l;
> +                                     fprintf(stderr, "%s%c", prefix, *brk);
>                               }
>  
> -                             skip_pf = !brk;
> -                             memmove(buf + pf+1, b + brk, len);
> -                     } while (len);
> +                             b = brk + 1;
> +                             prefix = PREFIX;
> +                     }
> +
> +                     if (*b) {
> +                             fprintf(stderr, "%s%s", prefix, b);
> +                             /* Incomplete line, skip the next prefix. */
> +                             prefix = "";
> +                     }
>                       continue;
>               case 1:
> -                     write_or_die(out, buf + pf+1, len);
> +                     write_or_die(out, buf + 1, len);
>                       continue;
>               default:
>                       fprintf(stderr, "%s: protocol error: bad band #%d\n",
> -- 
> 2.8.3
> 
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