From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:52:59 GMT
Subject: Re: open(2) vs fopen(3)
Message-ID: <4509348B.3060907@shadowen.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060914091513.19826.qmail@web25812.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

moreau francis wrote:
> Hi GIT folks,
> 
> I'm reading git source code and falling on this stupid question:
> Why sometime open(2) is used and other time fopen(3) is
> prefered. I'm sorry for this dump question but I have no clue.

It looks very much from a quick random sampling, that open is used where
we are going to mmap the file for quick access.  fopen otherwise.

-apw