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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:08:37PM -0400, Mark Levedahl wrote:
>All of the above connections and i/o processing are done using 
>bog-standard fork, pipe, open, read, write, and associated file 
>commands. Git has no trouble opening all of the processes and pipes 
>under Cygwin 1.7.2. However, in general before the data transfer is 
>complete the demux process issues an error upon getting an incomplete 
>packet (fewer bytes transmitted than declared in the header), and 
>debugging shows the error code of the read() is ENOENT, indicating the 
>pipe or socket has been terminated early. The index-pack process also 
>issues an error due to receipt of an incomplete pack.

ENOENT does not mean that the pipe or socket has been terminated early.
It sounds like read is not returning an error in this case so the errno
would be meaningless.

cgf

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