On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 10:54:21AM +0100, René Scharfe wrote: > +static int rewrite_file(const char *path, const char *buf, size_t len) > +{ > + int rc = 0; > + int fd = open(path, O_WRONLY); > + if (fd < 0) > + return error_errno(_("could not open '%s' for writing"), path); > + if (write_in_full(fd, buf, len) < 0) > + rc = error_errno(_("could not write to '%s'"), path); > + if (!rc && ftruncate(fd, len) < 0) > + rc = error_errno(_("could not truncate '%s'"), path); > + close(fd); We might want to check the return value of close() as some file systems report write errors only on close. But I'm not sure how the rest of Git's code-base handles this. > + return rc; > +} Regards Simon -- + privacy is necessary + using gnupg http://gnupg.org + public key id: 0x92FEFDB7E44C32F9