Erik Faye-Lund wrote: > I was wondering about the same thing, I don't think this approach is > very easy to follow. But either way I think we should make sure > opendir/closedir/readdir doesn't mess with errno. Other platforms and are allowed to (and do) clobber errno in many non-error situations, so the main effect would be to work around/hide some git bugs. For mingw-runtime, the balance might be different. Making buggy, non-portable application code easier to port does not sound like a bad thing. Just my two cents, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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