From: Alon Ziv <alonz@nolaviz.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:30:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] Switch git_mmap to use pread.
Message-ID: <1166988601.31444.3.camel@bruno.nolaviz.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612241407250.19693@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 14:09 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> I don't think it matters much. The _only_ platform we really use NO_MMAP 
> (other than for testing) is Windows, and AFAICT it does not have pread(), 
> so it is emulated by lseek/read/lseek anyway.
> 

Well, Win32 does have a pread()-like behavior in its generic ReadFile()
system call (using a curiously-named "lpOverlapped" parameter).  I would
have expected Cygwin to use it, but unfortunately from the CVS sources
it appears not to :(

	-az