Re: cloning the kernel - why long time in "Resolving 313037 deltas"
- From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Date
- Dec 19, 2006, 06:51 UTC
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- <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612182248420.3479@woody.osdl.org>
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- <20061219063930.GA2511@spearce.org>
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote:
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> > Why isn't git-index-pack doing the same? Is there some hidden glitch > in some OS somewhere that has a problem with overmapping a file and > appending into it via write()? I've done that on Mac OS X, Linux, > BSDi, Solaris... never had a problem.
It works on modern systems, but at least old HPUX versions had non-coherent mmap() and write(), and POSIX does not guarantee it. And if you ever want to port to Windows, I don't think you should do it.
Anyway, try the pread() version first, see if that fixes the OS X problem.