This simplifies the code a tiny bit, and provides consistent
error messages with other users of xopen().
While we're here, let's also switch to using O_WRONLY. We
know we're only going to open/write/close the file, so
there's no point in asking for O_RDWR.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted>
---
wrapper.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c
index 0349441..7c126b8 100644
--- a/wrapper.c
+++ b/wrapper.c
@@ -644,9 +644,7 @@ void write_file(const char *path, const char *fmt, ...)
{
va_list params;
struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
- int fd = open(path, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0666);
- if (fd < 0)
- die_errno(_("could not open %s for writing"), path);
+ int fd = xopen(path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0666);
va_start(params, fmt);
strbuf_vaddf(&sb, fmt, params);--
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