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Re: [PATCH 5/4] meson: turn on NO_MMAP when building with LSan

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Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Date
Mar 6, 2026, 18:00 UTC
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On 06/03/2026 4:25 pm, Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 01:17:24AM -0800, Jacob Keller wrote:
> 
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>> Also I think this might be somewhat less flexible than Make since you
>> can't forcibly enable mmap even with sanitizers enabled. I suppose thats
>> not a big deal since enabling sanitizers already has a high cost.
> 
> I don't pay much attention to the meson support, but yeah, it looks like
> there's no equivalent to tweak the NO_MMAP knob independently there. I
> doubt anybody is clamoring for it.

Ignoring old Cygwin, IRIX, IRIX64, Minix, Nonstop and OS/390 set NO_MMAP in the config.mak.uname file. I suspect none of them are using meson to build git, so it shouldn't be an issue. (although I don't quite know why I suspect that!).

[NOTE that NO_MMAP is not set in GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS, so ...]

ATB, Ramsay Jones

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Message 12 of 25 in “memory leak when cloning a repository”
  1. Jacob KellerMar 5, 2026
  2. Jeff KingMar 5, 2026
  3. 0/4 plugging some mmap() leaksJeff King, Mar 5, 2026
  4. 1/4 check_connected(): delay opening new_packJeff King, Mar 5, 2026
  5. Jacob KellerMar 5, 2026
  6. 2/4 check_connected(): fix leak of pack-index mmapJeff King, Mar 5, 2026
  7. Jacob KellerMar 5, 2026
  8. 3/4 pack-revindex: avoid double-loading .rev filesJeff King, Mar 5, 2026
  9. 4/4 Makefile: turn on NO_MMAP when building with LSanJeff King, Mar 5, 2026
  10. Jacob KellerMar 6, 2026
  11. 5/4 meson: turn on NO_MMAP when building with LSanJeff King, Mar 6, 2026
  12. Ramsay JonesMar 6, 2026
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2026
  14. 5/4 object-file: fix mmap() leak in odb_source_loose_read_object_stream()Jeff King, Mar 7, 2026
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2026
  16. Patrick SteinhardtMar 10, 2026
  17. Ramsay JonesMar 6, 2026
  18. Jeff KingMar 6, 2026
  19. Ramsay JonesMar 6, 2026
  20. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2026
  21. Ramsay JonesMar 6, 2026
  22. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2026
  23. Ramsay JonesMar 6, 2026
  24. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2026
  25. Jacob KellerMar 5, 2026

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