I stumbled across this in the context of the fchmod 0444 patch.
At first, I was going to unlink and call error like the two subsequent
tests do, but a failed write (above) provokes a "die", so I made
this do the same. This is testing for a write failure, after all.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>