On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 01:08:01PM -0500, Randall S. Becker wrote: > > It sounds like you might need to set FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES in your > > config.mak. > > Setting FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES = UnfortunatelyYes Silly question, but you did rebuild after setting that, not just re-run the tests, right? > still results in > > Value not found for "foo.bar" > test_expect_code: command exited with 1, we wanted 2 test-tool config configset_get_value foo.bar a-directory > not ok 23 - proper error on directory "files" > # > # echo "Error (-1) reading configuration file a-directory." >expect && > # mkdir a-directory && > # test_expect_code 2 test-tool config configset_get_value foo.bar a-directory 2>output && > # grep "^warning:" output && > # grep "^Error" output >actual && > # test_cmp expect actual > # > > I don't think that helped. While fopen can open a directory, fread > does not return any data in this platform. readdir or nftw/ftw are > pretty much the only options. However, the code still goes down the > goto exit1 path in this situation. Hrm. That's the exact case FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES is supposed to help. It does an fstat() after fopen()ing the file to see if it points to a directory, and if so closes it immediately and returns EISDIR. Can you confirm via debugger (or printf statements) that we make it into git_fopen, and what the resulting st.st_mode we see looks like? -Peff