RE: Porting git to HP NonStop

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johannes Sixt [mailto:j6t@kdbg.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:41 PM
> To: Brandon Casey
> Cc: Joachim Schmitz; Junio C Hamano; Shawn Pearce; git@vger.kernel.org;
> rsbecker@nexbridge.com
> Subject: Re: Porting git to HP NonStop
> 
> Am 22.08.2012 19:00, schrieb Brandon Casey:
> >  So I think the body of [compat_mkdir] can become something like:
> >
> >    if (len && dir[len-1] == '/')
> >        dir = tmp_dir = xstrndup(dir, len-1);
> 
> Don't use x* wrappers in the compat layer, at least not those that allocate
> memory: They behave unpredictably due to try_to_free_routine and may lead
> to recursive invocations.