From: Torsten Bögershausen Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:37:56 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/19] update-index: test the system before enabling untracked cache Message-ID: <544FD474.3050805@web.de> In-Reply-To: <1414411846-4450-19-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> On 2014-10-27 13.10, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: [] > +static void xmkdir(const char *path) > +{ > + if (mkdir(path, 0700)) > + die_errno(_("failed to create directory %s"), path); > +} Does it makes sense to ignore EINTR and do a "retry" ? Another question is if the function could be called mkdir_or_die() instead? I realized that there are 2 families of xfunc() in wrapper.c, some die, some retry.