On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Clemens Buchacher <clemens.buchac...@intel.com> wrote: > In read_sha1_file_extended we die if read_object fails with a fatal > error. We detect a fatal error if errno is non-zero and is not > ENOENT. If the object could not be read because it does not exist, > this is not considered a fatal error and we want to return NULL. > > Somewhere down the line, read_object calls git_open_noatime to open > a pack index file, for example. We first try open with O_NOATIME. > If O_NOATIME fails with EPERM, we retry without O_NOATIME. When the > second open succeeds, errno is however still set to EPERM from the > first attemt. When we finally determine that the object does not
s/attemt/attempt/ > exist, read_object returns NULL and read_sha1_file_extended dies > with a fatal error: > > fatal: failed to read object <sha1>: Operation not permitted > > Fix this by resetting errno to zero before we call open again. > > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> > Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <clemens.buchac...@intel.com> > Helped-by: Martin Schröder <martin.h.schroe...@intel.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
