From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 21:10:02 GMT
Subject: Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin
Message-ID: <7vk6gnpvf9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510082100020.26626@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> 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.
>
> Ahh! Reading the man page helps!
>
>> Yes.  It might have been overkill that you supported writing
>> changes back, though.
>
> Sure. Something like this?

Not, really.  What I meant was to rip out the writing out
altogether, and perhaps making sure that the caller never calls
us without MAP_PRIVATE.