Q: do people compile with NO_FNMATCH on OpenBSD 5.2?

I seem to get a failure from

    git ls-files "a*"

in t/t0000-basic.sh if I link with platform's fnmatch().
 

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

Not what you asked, but on NetBSD 5.1, libc fnmatch is used, and with git 1.8.0.1 that test passes.

This prompted me to look at the rest of the tests. All tests pass (except for expected failures) until:

  *** t0070-fundamental.sh ***
  ok 1 - character classes (isspace, isalpha etc.)
  not ok - 2 mktemp to nonexistent directory prints filename
  #
  #               test_must_fail test-mktemp doesnotexist/testXXXXXX 2>err &&
  #               grep "doesnotexist/test" err
  #
  ok 3 - mktemp to unwritable directory prints filename
  ok 4 - check for a bug in the regex routines
  # failed 1 among 4 test(s)
  1..4

Running this by hand, I get:

gdt 51 /usr/pkgsrc/devel/scmgit-base/work/git-1.8.0.1/t > ../test-mktemp foo/barXXXXXX > MKTEMP.stdout 2> MKTEMP.stderr; ls -l MKTEMP* -rw-r--r-- 1 gdt wheel 121 Dec 18 15:14 MKTEMP.stderr -rw-r--r-- 1 gdt wheel 0 Dec 18 15:14 MKTEMP.stdout gdt 52 /usr/pkgsrc/devel/scmgit-base/work/git-1.8.0.1/t > cat MKTEMP.stderr fatal: Unable to create temporary file '/usr/pkgsrc/devel/scmgit-base/work/git-1.8.0.1/t/foo': No such file or directory

It seems ENOENT is correct for the directory not existing. I think the test is complaining that the failed call to mkstemp modified the argument.

Looking at:
 
  http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mkstemp.html

I can't see that it requires anything in particular for the in/out paramater when there is an error.

Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> writes:

True.  Perhaps something like this.

-- >8 --
Subject: xmkstemp(): avoid showing truncated template more carefully

Some implementations of xmkstemp() leaves the given in/out buffer truncated when they return with failure.

6cf6bb3 (Improve error messages when temporary file creation fails, 2010-12-18) attempted to show the real filename we tried to create (but failed), and if that is not available due to such truncation, to show the original template that was given by the caller.

But it failed to take into account that the given template could have "directory/" in front, in which case the truncation point may not be template[0] but somewhere else.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

 wrapper.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

  [mkstemp truncating output on error]

  diff --git c/wrapper.c w/wrapper.c
  index 68739aa..a066e2e 100644
  --- c/wrapper.c
  +++ w/wrapper.c
  @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ int xmkstemp(char *template)
                  int saved_errno = errno;
                  const char *nonrelative_template;

  -		if (!template[0])
  +		if (strlen(template) != strlen(origtemplate))
                          template = origtemplate;

                  nonrelative_template = absolute_path(template);

Thanks for the quick fix.

I applied this patch to 1.8.0.1, and then the tests get all the way to t1402 (separate msg when I figure out why).