Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Oct 10, 2005, 18:43 UTC
Message-ID: <434AB663.8050205@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vr7avrgr2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 
> PROT_WRITE is true, but we do MAP_PRIVATE, and if I recall
> correctly we do not write file via mmap -- at least we do not
> intend to.
>

Then PROT_READ probably makes more sense?

> 
> Yes.  It might have been overkill that you supported writing
> changes back, though.

Not just overkill; if we do MAP_PRIVATE it's actively WRONG.

	-hpa

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