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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt | 11 |
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt index 82e9e831b6..2efe7a40be 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt @@ -52,6 +52,21 @@ Functions Wait for the completion of an asynchronous function that was started with start_async(). +`run_hook`:: + + Run a hook. + The first argument is a pathname to an index file, or NULL + if the hook uses the default index file or no index is needed. + The second argument is the name of the hook. + The further arguments correspond to the hook arguments. + The last argument has to be NULL to terminate the arguments list. + If the hook does not exist or is not executable, the return + value will be zero. + If it is executable, the hook will be executed and the exit + status of the hook is returned. + On execution, .stdout_to_stderr and .no_stdin will be set. + (See below.) + Data structures --------------- diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt index a8ee2fe6a1..9a4e3ea92c 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt @@ -133,8 +133,10 @@ Functions * Adding data to the buffer -NOTE: All of these functions in this section will grow the buffer as - necessary. +NOTE: All of the functions in this section will grow the buffer as necessary. +If they fail for some reason other than memory shortage and the buffer hadn't +been allocated before (i.e. the `struct strbuf` was set to `STRBUF_INIT`), +then they will free() it. `strbuf_addch`:: @@ -235,6 +237,11 @@ same behaviour as well. Read the contents of a file, specified by its path. The third argument can be used to give a hint about the file size, to avoid reallocs. +`strbuf_readlink`:: + + Read the target of a symbolic link, specified by its path. The third + argument can be used to give a hint about the size, to avoid reallocs. + `strbuf_getline`:: Read a line from a FILE* pointer. The second argument specifies the line |