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Re: fread reading directories

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KEKyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Date
Jun 7, 2020, 17:16 UTC
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On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 12:05 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> writes:
>
> > I was looking at FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES to measure some performance
> > differences, then stumbled upon [0] that dropped fread() from the
> > autoconf test that causes git to use its git_fopen shim [1] even on
> > Linux.
>
> I thought we saw this mentioned recently?  I do not recall if
> any concrete improvement came out of it.
>

Ah, this is my bad. =-( I had searched the archives (I'm not typically subscribed to this list) and noticed the related patch for GNU/Hurd, but completely missed that a more active discussion had taken place within that thread. I have now read that, and have no further questions.

Thanks!
Kyle Evans
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