From: Jason Riedy <ejr@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:10:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Solaris cloning woes partly diagnosed
Message-ID: <29336.1144005022@lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604021118210.3050@g5.osdl.org>

And Linus Torvalds writes:
 - 
 - I'd be willing to bet that it's the fact that we take signals.

Unfortunately, I'm too busy to check into this, but I've
run into similar problems in the past.  Just takes a busy 
file server.

 - We do, for example, expect that regular file writing not do that. At least 
 - "write_sha1_from_fd()" will just do a "write()" without testing the error 
 - return, [...]

There is an xwrite in git-compat-util.h...

Jason