From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:16:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Set errno to EEXIST if mkdir returns EACCES or EPERM
Message-ID: <20060130231622.GB3857@limbo.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vvew14frk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano, Mon, Jan 30, 2006 21:33:51 +0100:
> and have current callers of mkdir() use it, regardless of the
> platform.  It may not worth saving mkdir_errno, though.

errno may be worth saving. I find the process of finding
"why-the-f$%^-did-the-windows-broke-again" really tedious:
1. find the application which failed (grep for the die message)
2. put "%s", strerror(errno) in the die
3. retest
4. find out errno is 0 (success)
5. remove close(fd), munmap, whatever before the die
6. retest
7. repeat

> Then everybody but entry.c one would say force=0, and entry.c
> one passes force appropriately using the condition it uses in
> its current if() statement.

I like it :)