And Linus Torvalds writes: - - I'd be willing to bet that it's the fact that we take signals. Unfortunately, I'm too busy to check into this, but I've run into similar problems in the past. Just takes a busy file server. - We do, for example, expect that regular file writing not do that. At least - "write_sha1_from_fd()" will just do a "write()" without testing the error - return, [...] There is an xwrite in git-compat-util.h... Jason - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html