From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:22:37 GMT Subject: Re: master has some toys Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0511170236r28572db9i84dc271700ded79a@mail.gmail.com> Hi, On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Alex Riesen wrote: > As it turned out, not the git.c is guilty, but the missing > NO_MMAP=YesPlease in Cygwin section. I had it for a long time and > accidentally removed by the recent pull. BTW, I couldn't find nowhere > on original branch. Was it never submitted? It was not, because someone (Peter?) had success without NO_MMAP=YesPlease on cygwin. So it was decided to keep NO_MMAP an option which has to be provided by the user. > > Ideally I should get a cygwin environment myself, but for that > > first I need to procure Windows box. Or does cygwin run on > > Wine, and if so is cygwin running on Wine a good enough > > approximation of the real thing? It does not. The problem with mmap is a problem which stems from working around Windows not being POSIX. Also note that the problem goes poof in a gdb session. I tend to think it is a timing problem in conjunction with the (very conservative) Antivirus setting. Ciao, Dscho