Re: 'git status' is not read-only fs friendly

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 11, 2007, 23:24 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702120018110.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vsldcba3k.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Ah, you misread me.  What I was trying to drive at was if we find the 
> subtle difference between Cygwin's lstat(2) emulation and lstat(2) 
> result from the NTFS driver in the Linux kernel, we could start and fuel 
> flamewar on _other_ lists (namely, kernel and Cygwin) saying "you guys 
> are inconsistent which inconvenience applications great deal".

I have no access to cygwin right now, so I'll argue using MinGW instead.

As I already said, I do not know what would happen if we touched st_ino. We'd likely have to touch it, since it takes 2 bytes on MinGW, and 4 bytes on Linux. Also, IIRC Cygwin fakes the inodes; and it depends on the Cygwin version, how it does it.

Also, we check st_uid and st_gid explicitely, which is more a problem to be solved by the person mounting the filesystem than the person maintaining the filesystem driver.

AFAICT we do not use st_dev anyway.

> And watching other people flame each other is a lot more fun than 
> flamewar raging close to home ;-).

Sometimes I find them fun here, too. That is, if it is not such a tiring flamewar as the renaming issues which creep up regularly.

Ciao, Dsho