Re: windows problems summary

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 2, 2006, 15:38 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0603021636020.30490@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0603020649u99a2035i3b8adde8ddce9410@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Alex Riesen wrote:

> 1. opened and mmaped files can't be removed or renamed
>   (caused workaround with reading index in memory)

It was not the locking which caused the workaround. It was the not-working. (I still have to find a Windows machine where git-whatchanged does not segfault without NO_MMAP.)

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> 2. command can safely contain only one argument
>   (breaks and complicates passing things between processes)
> 3. no fork
>   (slows down and complicates passing things between processes)
> 4. non-unix permissions model
>   (breaks x-attr)
> 5. real slow filesystems and caching
>   (makes everything slow. I noticed I'm trying to avoid git status!).
>   Caused workaround with manual checkout)
> 6. real slow program startup
>   (makes everything slow, eventually may cause everything being put
>   in one super-executable, just to avoid spawning new processes,
>   with all associated problems. Makes scripting harder)

Except for (4), these issues should be resolvable by the libifying effort.

Ciao, Dscho