From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:37:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] unpack-trees: handle lstat failure for existing directory
Message-ID: <buobp3ls9l1.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110113022636.GB8635@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> @@ -1382,7 +1382,9 @@ static int verify_absent_1(struct cache_entry *ce,
>  		return check_ok_to_remove(ce->name, ce_namelen(ce),
>  				ce_to_dtype(ce), ce, &st,
>  				error_type, o);
> -
> +	if (errno != ENOENT)
> +		return error("cannot stat '%s': %s", ce->name,
> +				strerror(errno));
>  	return 0;

Is errno guaranteed to be set to something relevant at this point in the
code...?

-miels

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