From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:21:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] attr: notice and report read failure of .gitattributes files
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQy2e54Pjiu=7xw7Ox=OyxmFuoW6MU31JXXuXobQ_vvXA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20240618234436.4107855-3-gitster@pobox.com>

On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 7:46 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> The code that reads .gitattributes files was careless in dealing in
> unusual circumstances.
>
>  - It let read errors silently ignored.

ECANTPARSE: perhaps? s/errors/& be/

>  - It tried to read ".gitattributes" that is a directory on
>    platforms that allowed open(2) to open directories.
>
> To make the latter consistent with what we do for fopen() on
> directories ("git grep" for FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES for details),
> check if we opened a directory, silently close it and return
> success.  Catch all read errors before we close and report as
> needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>