From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:16:46 GMT
Subject: Re: bug: "fatal: cannot pread pack file", version 1.7.5.4
Message-ID: <7vobnwwyrl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120703051426.GA12965@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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.