From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:52:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git cat-file does not terminate
Message-ID: <7vwrk9cjib.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110308211423.GB4594@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 09:16:30AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> How prevalent is the problematic cygwin1.dll 1.7.8?  Also for how long did
>> this bug exist, in other words, if we were to make a table of problematic
>> versions, would we have only just a handful entries in it?  Also can we at
>> runtime find out what version we are running?
>> 
>> The reason I am asking these questions is because I think, assuming that
>> ...
> How are we doing the runtime test for platform max write?

I asked (1) if we can find out at runtime if we are on which version of
cygwin1.dll, and (2) if we can have a small list of "bad" versions of
cygwin1.dll.  If both are true, the runtime test should be trivial, no?

> So I think the test needs to be "is our version of cygwin in the broken
> list" and not "let's try a few different writes and see what works".

Yes, that is exactly what I had in mind.