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Re: [PATCH v5 03/15] index-helper: new daemon for caching index and related stuff

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Apr 20, 2016, 12:19 UTC
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Hi Duy,
On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 6:27 AM, David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> wrote:
> > Shared memory is done by storing files in a per-repository temporary
> > directory.  This is more portable than shm (which requires
> > posix-realtime and has various quirks on OS X).  It might even work on
> > Windows, although this has not been tested.
> 
> There's another option, but I'm not sure if it's too clever/tricky to
> do. Anyway, on *nix we can send file descriptors over unix socket [2],
> then mmap them back to access content.
This sounds too clever to me ;-)

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Duy NguyenApr 20, 2016
  2. David TurnerApr 20, 2016
  3. Johannes SchindelinApr 20, 2016

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