From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Riedy Subject: Re: Solaris cloning woes partly diagnosed Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:10:22 -0700 Message-ID: <29336.1144005022@lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU> References: X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 02 21:10:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FQ7xx-00028q-V2 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:10:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751283AbWDBTKX (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Apr 2006 15:10:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751484AbWDBTKX (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Apr 2006 15:10:23 -0400 Received: from lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU ([128.32.36.222]:64409 "EHLO lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751283AbWDBTKW (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Apr 2006 15:10:22 -0400 Received: from lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.12.8/8.12.8/3.141592645) with ESMTP id k32JAMgH029338 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 12:10:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU (ejr@localhost) by lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id k32JAMqK029337 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 12:10:22 -0700 (PDT) To: git@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: And Linus Torvalds writes: - - I'd be willing to bet that it's the fact that we take signals. Unfortunately, I'm too busy to check into this, but I've run into similar problems in the past. Just takes a busy file server. - We do, for example, expect that regular file writing not do that. At least - "write_sha1_from_fd()" will just do a "write()" without testing the error - return, [...] There is an xwrite in git-compat-util.h... Jason