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Re: [PATCH] Cygwin has trustable filemode

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 19, 2013, 19:16 UTC
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Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com> writes:
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> Related: Should we have separate settings for 1.5 and 1.7 for several
> variables? Conflicts I see not reflected in config.mak.uname on pu:
>     trustable filemode   (1.7 has, 1.5 does not)
>     MMAP/Pread (1.7 pread is thread safe, 1.5 I dont think was, MMAP
> utility is convolved in this)
>     regex - 1.7 is broken, per Ramsay 1.5 works
>
> If you think its worth it, I'll create a patch series with the above
> and justifications for the different settings that I know.

I'd say that would be a sensible thing to do, given that the alternative seems to be "let's drop 1.5 support right now, because otherwise we cannot run Git on 1.7".

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Message 7 of 19 in “Cygwin has trustable filemode”
  1. Cygwin has trustable filemodeMark Levedahl, Jul 14, 2013
  2. Ramsay JonesJul 16, 2013
  3. Mark LevedahlJul 16, 2013
  4. Cygwin has trustable filemodeMark Levedahl, Jul 19, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 19, 2013
  6. Mark LevedahlJul 19, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 19, 2013
  8. Mark LevedahlJul 19, 2013
  9. 1/4 Cygwin 1.7 has trustable filemodeMark Levedahl, Jul 19, 2013
  10. 2/4 Cygwin 1.7 needs compat/regexMark Levedahl, Jul 19, 2013
  11. 3/4 Cygwin 1.7 has thread-safe preadMark Levedahl, Jul 19, 2013
  12. 4/4 Cygwin 1.7 supports mmapMark Levedahl, Jul 19, 2013
  13. Jonathan NiederJul 19, 2013
  14. Ramsay JonesJul 20, 2013
  15. Ramsay JonesJul 20, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoJul 21, 2013
  17. Mark LevedahlJul 22, 2013
  18. Junio C HamanoJul 22, 2013
  19. Mark LevedahlJul 22, 2013

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