"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Using 1.5.0.1. Can't see what is wrong with this clone... > ... > > Indexing 4589 objects. > > remote: Total 4589 (delta 2209), reused 4589 (delta 2209) > > 100% (4589/4589) done > > Resolving 2209 deltas. > > fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success > > fatal: index-pack died with error code 128 > > fetch-pack from '/home/rael/devel/project/.git' failed. > > I think the pread() in get_data_from_pack of index-pack is wrong, > it really should be looping until we fill the buffer in case the > OS doesn't fully satisfy our read request the first time. Does this fix your problem? -->8-- [PATCH] index-pack: Loop over pread until data loading is complete. A filesystem might not be able to completely supply our pread request in one system call, such as if we are reading data from a network file system and the requested length is just simply huge. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- index-pack.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/index-pack.c b/index-pack.c index 859ec01..cf81a99 100644 --- a/index-pack.c +++ b/index-pack.c @@ -277,13 +277,19 @@ static void *get_data_from_pack(struct object_entry *obj) { unsigned long from = obj[0].offset + obj[0].hdr_size; unsigned long len = obj[1].offset - from; + unsigned long rdy = 0; unsigned char *src, *data; z_stream stream; int st; src = xmalloc(len); - if (pread(pack_fd, src, len, from) != len) - die("cannot pread pack file: %s", strerror(errno)); + data = src; + do { + ssize_t n = pread(pack_fd, data + rdy, len - rdy, from + rdy); + if (n <= 0) + die("cannot pread pack file: %s", strerror(errno)); + rdy += n; + } while (rdy < len); data = xmalloc(obj->size); memset(&stream, 0, sizeof(stream)); stream.next_out = data; -- 1.5.0.2.775.g1a500 -- Shawn. - 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