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Re: [PATCH] Replacing the system call pread() with lseek()/xread()/lseek() sequence.

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 10, 2007, 00:30 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0701100128410.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hi,
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The caller of pread() does not care the current position, but that is 
> not to mean it does not care the position after pread() returns.  The 
> current callers do not care, though.

Not completely true. We fixed in v1.4.4.1~23 a bug which was triggered by NO_MMAP. Since this recently became the default for cygwin, "git-index-pack --fix-thin" would fail in most cases.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 5 of 8 in “Replacing the system call pread() with lseek()/xread()/lseek() sequence.”
  1. Replacing the system call pread() with lseek()/xread()/lseek() sequence.Stefan-W. Hahn, Jan 9, 2007
  2. Andy WhitcroftJan 9, 2007
  3. Shawn O. PearceJan 9, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 10, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinJan 10, 2007
  6. Nicolas PitreJan 10, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinJan 9, 2007
  8. Nicolas PitreJan 10, 2007

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