From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 17:31:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detect renames in diff family.
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