Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> writes:

> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> When asked to open/fopen a path, e.g. "a/b:/c", which does not exist
>> on the filesystem, Windows (correctly) fails to open it but sets
>> EINVAL to errno
>
> errno to EINVAL (as of now it sounds as if it is a EINVAL = errno,
> which makes no sense to me)
>
>> because the pathname has characters that cannot be
>> stored in its filesystem.
>>
>> As this is an expected failure, teach is_missing_file_error() helper
>> about this case.
>>
>> This is RFC,
>
> cc'd people knowledgeable of Windows.

This has been resolved I think with J6t/Dscho's patch yesterday.

Thanks.

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