On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 04:49:45PM +0200, demerphq wrote: > On 13 September 2017 at 16:17, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You're welcome to read over the function to double-check, but I just > > looked it over and couldn't find any unchecked writes. > > I can look, but I doubt I would notice something you did not. > > On the other hand the strace output does show that this is a case > where the writes failed, but we still renamed the empty config.lock > file into place: > > > write(3, "[core]\n\tsharedRepository = true\n"..., 288) = -1 ENOSPC > (No space left on device) > write(3, " merge = refs/heads/yves/"..., 51) = -1 ENOSPC (No > space left on device) > munmap(0x7f48d9b8c000, 363) = 0 > close(3) = 0 > rename("/usr/local/git_tree/main/.git/config.lock", > "/usr/local/git_tree/main/.git/config") = 0 Hmph. That is very disturbing. But with that information I should be able to track down the culprit. Thanks for digging. > I freed up space and things worked, so I somehow doubt the filesystem > is at fault. When I then filled up the disk and retried the error was > repeatable. Yeah, agreed. This really does look like a bug. -Peff