From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:30:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replacing the system call pread() with lseek()/xread()/lseek() sequence.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701100128410.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v7ivvivej.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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