Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > It's very odd for pread to report ENOENT (since it is always operating > on an already-opened file descriptor). It doesn't, but gettext will clobber errno: n = pread(pack_fd, inbuf, n, from); if (n < 0) die_errno(_("cannot pread pack file")); There is nothing that saves errno. This isn't limited to i18n though, any function call in the arguments may potentially clobber errno. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- 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