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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Clemens Buchacher" <drizzd@aon.at>,
	"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] unpack-trees: handle lstat failure for existing directory
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:38:49 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110113053849.GA10371@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buobp3ls9l1.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>

Miles Bader wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> @@ -1382,7 +1382,9 @@ static int verify_absent_1(struct cache_entry *ce,
>>  		return check_ok_to_remove(ce->name, ce_namelen(ce),
>>  				ce_to_dtype(ce), ce, &st,
>>  				error_type, o);
>> -
>> +	if (errno != ENOENT)
>> +		return error("cannot stat '%s': %s", ce->name,
>> +				strerror(errno));
>>  	return 0;
>
> Is errno guaranteed to be set to something relevant at this point in the
> code...?

Yes, because lstat failed.  But perhaps that is a hint that the code
should be restructured as

	} else if (lstat(... )) {
		if (errno != ENOENT)
			return error(...
		return 0;
	} else {
		return check_ok_to_remove(...
	}

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-13  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-01 20:54 unpack-trees: fix D/F conflict bugs in verify_absent Clemens Buchacher
2009-01-01 20:54 ` [PATCH 1/3] unpack-trees: handle failure " Clemens Buchacher
2009-01-01 20:54   ` [PATCH 2/3] unpack-trees: fix path search bug " Clemens Buchacher
2009-01-01 20:54     ` [PATCH 3/3] unpack-trees: remove redundant path search " Clemens Buchacher
2009-01-06  8:19       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-02 21:59     ` [PATCH 2/3] unpack-trees: fix path search bug " Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-03 10:39       ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-01-03 12:53         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-04 10:01           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-04 20:01             ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-01-06 19:35               ` Johannes Schindelin
2011-01-13  2:24   ` [RFC/PATCH 0/2] unpack-trees: handle lstat failures " Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-13  2:26     ` [PATCH 1/2] unpack-trees: handle lstat failure for existing directory Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-13  4:37       ` Miles Bader
2011-01-13  5:38         ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-01-13  2:28     ` [PATCH 2/2] unpack-trees: handle lstat failure for existing file Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-13 20:20     ` [RFC/PATCH 0/2] unpack-trees: handle lstat failures in verify_absent Clemens Buchacher
2009-01-01 21:28 ` unpack-trees: fix D/F conflict bugs " Junio C Hamano
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-16 23:24 Strange untracked file behaviour Miklos Vajna
2008-12-17  5:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-12-17 14:38   ` Miklos Vajna
2009-01-02 21:59 ` [PATCH 2/3] unpack-trees: fix path search bug in verify_absent Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-03 14:01   ` Miklos Vajna

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