From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:33:05 GMT Subject: Re: Can git be tweaked to work cross-platform, on FAT32? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <17797.35177.550000.996862@lapjr.intranet.kiel.bmiag.de> Hi, On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Juergen Ruehle wrote: > Johannes claims that there are additional problems with mmap on cygwin, > but it passes the complete test suite on NTFS, so it should be ok for > most operations I encountered a problem with git-log, where the fork() tried to reestablish a mmap()ed file, which unfortunately was renamed (since it was a .lock file[*1*]). This triggered the implementation of NO_MMAP. I am sure that there are more problems with it. BTW the problem stems from Windows having _no_ equivalent to fork(). Notefoot 1: Isn't it funny that Windows cannot delete files which are still opened, but does not care when it is renamed? Ciao,