From: Florian Weimer Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:30:08 GMT Subject: Re: [RFH] plumber's puzzle Message-ID: <87mz10duen.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> In-Reply-To: <7v647ombi6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> * Junio C. Hamano: > Insights? 5520 write(1, "diff --git a/test.t b/test.t\n", 29) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) It's not a fix, you just discard the output because you've closed standard output.