From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 00:47:20 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] config.mak.uname: enable OPEN_RETURNS_EINTR for macOS Big Sur Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Jeff King writes: > Thanks. I guess we're a bit late to make it into the upcoming release. > Certainly we have survived for many years without this particular > bugfix, so in that sense it is not urgent. But I do wonder if we will > see more reports as more people start using the new macOS release. So it > might be good to keep in mind for maint, if we cut a minor release. > > Or alternatively, we could include _just_ the first patch. That's low > risk, since you have to enable to knob yourself, but it gives people an > option if they run into the symptom. But even that is probably not that > urgent. People can also cherry-pick the patch, after all (and a > distributor like homebrew can probably include the patch in their recipe > if need be). True. The topic is forked at somewhere mergeable to 'maint' so distro folks who are interested can merge them down later. I think it is small and safe enough to merge them both down to the upcoming release, though.