On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 9:51 PM Randall S. Becker <rsbec...@nexbridge.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to track down what happened this morning. We had a commit that > caused a background gc to occur. What happened was: > > $ git commit -m "history commit ... " > Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance. > See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping. > warning: The last gc run reported the following. Please correct the root > cause > and remove .git/gc.log. > Automatic cleanup will not be performed until the file is removed. > > fatal: open /dev/null failed: Invalid function argument
sanitize_stdfds() in setup.c can attempt to open /dev/null then redirect stdout and stderr to it. I think this is part of the daemonization that is done in background gc. > fatal: failed to run repack > > Obviously the /dev/null open was not right, but I don't know where this is > in the git code to investigate further. Any pointers on where to look would > be appreciated. This started happening at 2.20.1 on the NonStop platform. > > Cheers, > Randall > > -- Brief whoami: > NonStop developer since approximately 211288444200000000 > UNIX developer since approximately 421664400 > -- In my real life, I talk too much. > > > > -- Duy
