do not check odb_mkstemp return value for errors

The odb_mkstemp function does not return an error; it dies
on failure instead. But many of its callers compare the
resulting descriptor against -1 and die themselves.

Mostly this is just pointless, but it does raise a question
when looking at the callers: if they show the results of the
"template" buffer after a failure, what's in it? The answer
is: it doesn't matter, because it cannot happen.

So let's make that clear by removing the bogus error checks.
In bitmap_writer_finish(), we can drop the error-handling
code entirely. In the other two cases, it's shared with the
open() in another code path; we can just move the
error-check next to that open() call.

And while we're at it, let's flesh out the function's
docstring a bit to make the error behavior clear.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/pack-write.c b/pack-write.c
index c057513f12..485080a31a 100644
--- a/pack-write.c
+++ b/pack-write.c
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ const char *write_idx_file(const char *index_name, struct pack_idx_entry **objec
 		} else {
 			unlink(index_name);
 			fd = open(index_name, O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_WRONLY, 0600);
+			if (fd < 0)
+				die_errno("unable to create '%s'", index_name);
 		}
-		if (fd < 0)
-			die_errno("unable to create '%s'", index_name);
 		f = sha1fd(fd, index_name);
 	}