Subject: Re: Porting git to HP NonStop

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:41:07 +0200

Am 22.08.2012 19:00, schrieb Brandon Casey:
>  So I think the body of [compat_mkdir] can become
> something like:
> 
>    if (len && dir[len-1] == '/')
>        dir = tmp_dir = xstrndup(dir, len-1);

Don't use x* wrappers in the compat layer, at least not those that
allocate memory: They behave unpredictably due to try_to_free_routine
and may lead to recursive invocations.

> 
>    retval = mkdir(dir, mode);
>    free(tmp_dir);

-- Hannes