From: Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:54:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Make sure objects/pack exists before creating a new pack
Message-ID: <e2b179460902260754t38618c3fsf22a699ec35070cf@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49A6B5E8.8040306@viscovery.net>

2009/2/26 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>:
> Mike Ralphson schrieb:
>> Even with j6t's patch, I'm seeing failures in t5300--pack-object.sh on AIX 5.3
>>
>> * FAIL 15: survive missing objects/pack directory
>> fatal: Unable to create temporary file (): No such file or directory
>
> I can confirm this. Your patch is good. I wrapped it up:
>
> -- snip --
> From: Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] Fix odb_mkstemp() on AIX
>
> The AIX mkstemp() modifies its template parameter to an empty string if
> the call fails.  The existing code had already recomputed the template,
> but too late to be good.
>
> See also 6ff6af62, which fixed this problem in a different spot.

Ah, I should have remembered that one.

If my $DAYJOB email address could be used in the From, as per this s-o-b:

Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>

Thanks.