From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:12:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] crash on make test
Message-ID: <7vvdgmslwr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091204103557.GC27495@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I think we should apply the patch below to maint, as this is something
> that can come up due to permissions problems. But I fear it won't
> actually fix the test failure you are seeing; you will just see it die()
> instead of segfaulting. However, the value of errno should give us a
> clue about what is happening, so please try running the test again with
> this patch.

Thanks, and I agree with the whole of the above paragraph, not just the
first sentence.