The AIX mkstemp will modify it's template parameter to an empty string if the call fails. This caused a subsequent mkdir to fail. Signed-off-by: Patrick Higgins <patrick.higgins@xxxxxxxx> --- sha1_file.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c index 191f814..92299ed 100644 --- a/sha1_file.c +++ b/sha1_file.c @@ -2118,6 +2118,7 @@ static int create_tmpfile(char *buffer, size_t bufsiz, const char *filename) fd = mkstemp(buffer); if (fd < 0 && dirlen) { /* Make sure the directory exists */ + memcpy(buffer, filename, dirlen); buffer[dirlen-1] = 0; if (mkdir(buffer, 0777) || adjust_shared_perm(buffer)) return -1; -- 1.5.6.dirty -- 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