On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Peter wrote: > > Thanks a lot , I will check that out tomorrow, in the meantime, this is the > result of your patch being applied: > > $ git add <big stuff> > > fatal: error when closing sha1 file (Bad file descriptor) Ok, that's probably cifs_writepages() doing open_file = find_writable_file(CIFS_I(mapping->host)); if (!open_file) { cERROR(1, ("No writable handles for inode")); rc = -EBADF; } else { .. so yeah, looks like it's the fchmod() that triggers it. I suspect this would be a safer - if slightly slower - way to make sure the file is read-only. It's slower, because it is going to look up the filename once more, but I bet it is going to avoid this particular CIFS bug. Linus --- http-push.c | 2 +- sha1_file.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/http-push.c b/http-push.c index 48e5f38..ba4fa4d 100644 --- a/http-push.c +++ b/http-push.c @@ -748,8 +748,8 @@ static void finish_request(struct transfer_request *request) aborted = 1; } } else if (request->state == RUN_FETCH_LOOSE) { - fchmod(request->local_fileno, 0444); close(request->local_fileno); request->local_fileno = -1; + chmod(request->tmpfile, 0444); if (request->curl_result != CURLE_OK && request->http_code != 416) { diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c index 4563173..8268da7 100644 --- a/sha1_file.c +++ b/sha1_file.c @@ -2285,9 +2285,8 @@ static void close_sha1_file(int fd) { if (fsync_object_files) fsync_or_die(fd, "sha1 file"); - fchmod(fd, 0444); if (close(fd) != 0) - die("unable to write sha1 file"); + die("error when closing sha1 file (%s)", strerror(errno)); } /* Size of directory component, including the ending '/' */ @@ -2384,6 +2383,7 @@ static int write_loose_object(const unsigned char *sha1, char *hdr, int hdrlen, close_sha1_file(fd); free(compressed); + chmod(tmpfile, 0444); if (mtime) { struct utimbuf utb; utb.actime = mtime; -- 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