From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:24:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] compat: Fix read() of 2GB and more on Mac OS X
Message-ID: <xmqqa9kd8uga.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <61B1EB04-497F-4398-8C52-CCE3A1A81B10@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:

> I'm happy to rework it again towards your suggestion.  I would also remove
> the compat wrapper for write().  But I got a bit tired.  I'd appreciate if
> I received more indication whether a version without compat wrappers would
> be accepted.

I think it is a reasonable way forward to remove the writer side
wrapper and doing large IO in reasonably big (but small enough not to
trigger MacOS X limitations) chunks in both read/write direction.

Linus, thanks for a dose of sanity.