From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 23:32:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/13] config.mak.uname: set FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES for Darwin, too
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In-Reply-To: <xmqqo9ua9btk.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Do we have any reasons for that, or pointers on the mailing list, that this
>> is a good idea or needed? Does it fix a bug or enable a new feature on Darwin?
>
> BSD lets you open() a directory for reading and hence we require
> this workaround on it; I think somebody in an earlier round
> suspected that that Darwin would have inherited the same from its
> BSD lineage, and I don't see a reason to contradict with that
> suspicion, either.
>

Sorry about not being clear:
I - just like some future reader - did not have the context of the previous
round, so please put this information into the commit message.

Thanks,
Stefan