On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:00:44PM +0200, Marco Roeland wrote: >On Wednesday June 28th 2006 Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> [PATCH] save errno in handle_alias() >> >> git.c:main() relies on the value of errno being set by the last attempt to >> execute the command. However, if something goes awry in handle_alias(), >> that assumption is wrong. So restore errno before returning from >> handle_alias(). > >If we rely on the value of errno we should always immediately store it's >value anyway. On some neolithic systems like the "MSVCRT.DLL" C runtime >library on Windows (used by e.g. the Mingw compiler, don't know about >Cygwin) a lot of runtime functions actually even reset the value of >errno to 0 on success! Cygwin does not use MSVCRT.DLL and tries to be careful about spurious resetting of errno. cgf - : 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