Re: bug: "fatal: cannot pread pack file", version 1.7.5.4

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hmm. According to gettext(3):
>
>   ERRORS
>          errno is not modified.
>
> And googling for "gettext" and "errno" reveals several bugfixes in GNU
> gettext to make sure that gettext preserves errno. I wonder if there are
> systems where that is not the case, though; I don't know what non-GNU
> gettext implementations are in common use these days. I'd still be
> curious to hear what platform the server is for this bug report.

Yes, I am also curious.

Regardless, we may need your "save_errno" patch if the bulk of it
may have to be made conditional on NEED_SAVE_ERRNO_IN_GETTEXT=YesPlease
or something.

Thanks for digging.
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