Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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.
Argh...
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