From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 18:59:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] packfile: replace lseek+read with pread
Message-ID: <20191226185932.GA19165@dcvr>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzhffkku2.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:
> >
> > Furthermore, readers of the packfile will be using mmap
> > (or pread to emulate mmap), anyways, so the file description
> > offset does not matter in this case.
> 
> s/description/descriptor/ probably.

No, I meant "description" :)  The offset is shared in case of dup{,2,3}
syscalls, which only creates a new descriptor, not a new description.
Both the Linux and POSIX lseek(2) manpages say "description".