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Re: bug: "fatal: cannot pread pack file", version 1.7.5.4

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 3, 2012, 17:16 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> Hmm. According to gettext(3):
>
>   ERRORS
>          errno is not modified.
>
> And googling for "gettext" and "errno" reveals several bugfixes in GNU
> gettext to make sure that gettext preserves errno. I wonder if there are
> systems where that is not the case, though; I don't know what non-GNU
> gettext implementations are in common use these days. I'd still be
> curious to hear what platform the server is for this bug report.
Yes, I am also curious.

Regardless, we may need your "save_errno" patch if the bulk of it may have to be made conditional on NEED_SAVE_ERRNO_IN_GETTEXT=YesPlease or something.

Thanks for digging.
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  4. Andreas SchwabJul 2, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 2, 2012
  6. Jeff KingJul 3, 2012
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJul 3, 2012
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  10. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2012
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