Re: [PATCH] Detect renames in diff family.

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 19, 2005, 17:31 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505191029331.2322@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4qcz16n6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
>  - I have been assuming that diff_delta uses its two input
>    read-only but have not verified that myself yet.

Since test-delta uses mmap(PROT_READ), we'd get SIGSEGV if diff_delta actually wrote to the thing. So this is a safe assumption.

		Linus

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