From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:02:52 GMT
Subject: Re: index-pack died on pread
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707261101580.3442@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0707260951h57fc91dbsd5a0a126f0e16fee@mail.gmail.com>



On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > 
> > HP-UX? No pread()? It wouldn't link if it didn't have pread(). So it
> > clearly has pread(), it's just somehow broken.
> 
> I remember it didn't and was emulated with lseek.

So? The point is, that *works*. We do it ourselves.

"emulated with lseek" is trivial, and should work. It worries me that two 
totally independent systems are showing problems. There's something else 
going on here.

		Linus