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Re: Problem with git on Cygiwn 1.7


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According to Corinna Vinschen on 3/27/2009 7:10 AM:
> On Mar 26 21:19, Andy Moreton wrote:
>>     git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
>>
>> Produces this output:
>>
>> Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/local/src/kernel.org/linux-2.6/.git/
>> remote: Counting objects: 1080230, done.
>> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (175739/175739), done.
>> fatal: read error on input: Bad address328.00 KiB | 33 KiB/s
>> fatal: index-pack failed
>>
>> The relevant portion of the strace output is:
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>   847 506042200 [main] git-index-pack 2084 readv: readv (0, 0x22C844, 1) blocking, sigcatchers 1
>> 29196 506071396 [main] git-index-pack 2084 seterrno_from_win_error: /ext/build/netrel/src/cygwin-1.7.0-44/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc:1747 windows error 998
>>    77 506071473 [main] git-index-pack 2084 geterrno_from_win_error: windows error 998 == errno 14
>>   134 506071607 [main] git-index-pack 2084 readv: -1 = readv (0, 0x22C844, 1), errno 14
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This needs help by the git maintainer.  Eric?

I've been meaning to get enough free time to look into this.  It appears
to be a heisenbug, where simply stracing things changes the behavior:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00567.html
I'm also wondering if today's fix to pathconf may have any impact.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin git maintainer
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