I stumbled across this in the context of the fchmod 0444 patch. At first, I was going to unlink and call error like the two subsequent tests do, but a failed write (above) provokes a "die", so I made this do the same. This is testing for a write failure, after all. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sha1_file.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c index 0897b94..42aef33 100644 --- a/sha1_file.c +++ b/sha1_file.c @@ -2155,7 +2155,8 @@ int write_sha1_from_fd(const unsigned char *sha1, int fd, char *buffer, inflateEnd(&stream); fchmod(local, 0444); - close(local); + if (close(local) != 0) + die("unable to write sha1 file"); SHA1_Final(real_sha1, &c); if (ret != Z_STREAM_END) { unlink(tmpfile); -- 1.5.1.rc1.51.gb08b - 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