From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 12:19:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/15] index-helper: new daemon for caching index and related stuff
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1604201418550.2826@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8D_4KFjz6HefvzmWw-6Qqg0uguq8MXL6kLY0oMyVhPS0w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Duy,

On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> 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