From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:43:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git cat-file does not terminate
Message-ID: <20110309214323.GB4400@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4D77DA52.7050701@tweerlei.de>

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 08:51:46PM +0100, Robert Wruck wrote:

> >Thanks; it is not very critical so don't spend too much effort trying to
> >find a way to do so at runtime.  We can always use the approach Jeff's
> >Makefile patch took to make it safe (and potentially slow) by default on
> >all Cygwin while still allowing people on an unaffected version to turn
> >the workaround off while building.
> 
> The write() issue will presumably be fixed in the next cygwin
> release. I already have a version that works on WinXP where it used
> to fail.

Cool. Does our Makefile know the cygwin version number via "uname -r"?
We could at least tweak the build-time patch to turn it on for the right
versions (though we should perhaps wait for the fixed version to be
released so we know what it is. :) ).

Personally I wouldn't bother much with run-time detection. But maybe
cygwin people tend to download binary packages and run them on top of
arbitrary versions cygwin? I don't know what's normal.

-Peff