On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > If you mean the offset associated with fd, we actually do. Ahh, for some reason I thought we didn't (probably because the user likely doesn't care at all), but right you are.. > The original HP-UX error is confusing, as we ask pread() to > transfer 428 bytes and it returns 0 (not returning -1 with > EINTR). Return value of zero is understandable, if the starting > position is at or after the EOF, but the offset is 123601 and > 56k objects packed from git.git repository should be longer than > that, so that also sounds implausible. Yeah. It is suspicious. If somebody could run git under gdb on HP-UX (preferably compiled statically), and just disassemble the pread() thing, it would be interesting. PA-RISC assembly is *almost* entirely unreadable, but it might show whether hpux-11.11 actually has a pread() system call or whether it is doing the "emulate with lseek" and maybe obviously buggily at that.. It really isn't that complex a system call. So I'm surprised at bugs there, and that makes me worry that there is something in git that triggers this. Linus - 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
