wrapper: implement xfopen()

A common usage pattern of fopen() is to check if it succeeded, and die()
if it failed:

	FILE *fp = fopen(path, "w");
	if (!fp)
		die_errno(_("could not open '%s' for writing"), path);

Implement a wrapper function xfopen() for the above, so that we can save
a few lines of code and make the die() messages consistent.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index e168dfd68b..392da79029 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -722,6 +722,7 @@ extern ssize_t xread(int fd, void *buf, size_t len);
 extern ssize_t xwrite(int fd, const void *buf, size_t len);
 extern ssize_t xpread(int fd, void *buf, size_t len, off_t offset);
 extern int xdup(int fd);
+extern FILE *xfopen(const char *path, const char *mode);
 extern FILE *xfdopen(int fd, const char *mode);
 extern int xmkstemp(char *template);
 extern int xmkstemp_mode(char *template, int mode);
diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c
index 0a4502d232..e451463431 100644
--- a/wrapper.c
+++ b/wrapper.c
@@ -346,6 +346,27 @@ int xdup(int fd)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/**
+ * xfopen() is the same as fopen(), but it die()s if the fopen() fails.
+ */
+FILE *xfopen(const char *path, const char *mode)
+{
+	for (;;) {
+		FILE *fp = fopen(path, mode);
+		if (fp)
+			return fp;
+		if (errno == EINTR)
+			continue;
+
+		if (*mode && mode[1] == '+')
+			die_errno(_("could not open '%s' for reading and writing"), path);
+		else if (*mode == 'w' || *mode == 'a')
+			die_errno(_("could not open '%s' for writing"), path);
+		else
+			die_errno(_("could not open '%s' for reading"), path);
+	}
+}
+
 FILE *xfdopen(int fd, const char *mode)
 {
 	FILE *stream = fdopen(fd, mode);