From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 23:57:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] If NO_MMAP is defined, fake mmap() and munmap()
Message-ID: <20051007235735.GB14827@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vwtkoyjs9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano, Sat, Oct 08, 2005 01:44:22 +0200:
> > Since some platforms do not support mmap() at all, and others do only just 
> > so, this patch introduces the option to fake mmap() and munmap() by 
> > malloc()ing and read()ing explicitely.
> 
> I guess I can just drop Alex Riesen patch and any other recent
> patches that try to work around mmap().  Happy!
> 

Me too. I was just about to make a read_cache read the whole index in
(absolutely the same as Johannes, but not that elegant).

The platform(s) deserve such a treatment :)