Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle
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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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- Oct 18, 2006, 20:47 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes: > > > Ah true. I missed the "thin" pack. > > > > Any idea why we should still prevent this? It is not like it was a > > technical limitation. > > It is a technical limitation. We have never assumed that the > virtual address space is big enough to hold more than one whole > pack mmapped at the same time.
Even though its not big enough for some larger packs on a 32 bit system.
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> Lifting this needs the piecemeal mmap() change somebody was > talking about. > > I might bite the bullet and do that myself but I've been hoping > to get an appliable patch from somewhere else ;-).
I might be able to do it this weekend. I'll try to spend some time on it. You'll either see a patch series, or you won't. ;-)
-- Shawn.