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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: use result of open(2) to check for presence
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:12:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0601050712q4c2123f7i8e9190c3b75b6fda@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <118833cc0601050648t17f68bcch8fd7c541585e965c@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/5/06, Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Neat, but perhaps you should check the fstat return code.
> It actually can fail, for example if the filesize cannot be represented in the
> structure because it is too big.

Yes, of course. It will be added along with the missing test for mmap
returning MAP_FAILED. Sometime.

Sarcasm aside, how do you get such a situation?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-05 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-05 11:43 use result of open(2) to check for presence Alex Riesen
2006-01-05 14:48 ` Morten Welinder
2006-01-05 15:12   ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2006-01-05 16:45     ` Morten Welinder
2006-01-05 18:07       ` Alex Riesen

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