Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> writes: > Is it really the redirection that is the problem? > > The process seeks $fh back to the beginning, reads 5 bytes from > it (to ensure that is 'link '), and then forks to feed $fh to > git-hash-object. > > Now what do you really want to hash here? I do not know what > this "file that begins with 'link '" magic is about, but I > suspect that the child may or may not start reading from byte > offset 5 of that file, depending on how the low-level I/O is > tied to Perl. > > Here is a little test script to imitate what the part in > close_file sub is doing. What does it output on MacOS (or > whatever systems that are having the same problem)? > > On a Linux box, it appears that it reads the remainder of the > file and the test script says "child says: >>12345", so I am > assuming that is what close_file sub wants to do. If my > suspicion is correct, you would get "child says: >>link 12345", > in which case sysseek() commented out below would help, > perhaps. On OS X, I get: ziti:~/temp seth$ ./perltest1.pl read[5]: link child says: child: at 5 And uncommenting the sysseek call, I get: ziti:~/temp seth$ ./perltest1.pl read[5]: link child says: child: at 5 child says: >>12345 + seth - 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