On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 08:44 +0100, Francis Galiegue wrote: > > So, if the mkstemp() fails with EPERM, don't try to create the > > directory - return straight away. > Are you sure you didn't mean EACCESS? Ah, you're right there. Well, maybe this one should be as well: Subject: sha1_file: accept EACCESS as equivalent to EPERM This was testing for 'Operation not permitted' rather than any kind of 'Permission Denied' error; prefer EACCESS. Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Sorry for the inevitable wrapping/whitespace fail :( diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c index 7662330..cd422e6 100644 --- a/sha1_file.c +++ b/sha1_file.c @@ -2231,7 +2231,7 @@ static int create_tmpfile(char *buffer, size_t bufsiz, const char *filename) memcpy(buffer, filename, dirlen); strcpy(buffer + dirlen, "tmp_obj_XXXXXX"); fd = mkstemp(buffer); - if (fd < 0 && dirlen && (errno != EPERM)) { + if (fd < 0 && dirlen && (errno != EACCESS)) { /* Make sure the directory exists */ memcpy(buffer, filename, dirlen); buffer[dirlen-1] = 0; @@ -2257,7 +2257,7 @@ static int write_loose_object(const unsigned char *sha1, char *hdr, int hdrlen, filename = sha1_file_name(sha1); fd = create_tmpfile(tmpfile, sizeof(tmpfile), filename); if (fd < 0) { - if (errno == EPERM) + if (errno == EACCESS || errno == EPERM) return error("insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database %s\n", get_object_directory()); else return error("unable to create temporary sha1 filename %s: %s\n", tmpfile, strerror(errno)); -- 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