From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: open(2) vs fopen(3) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:52:59 +0100 Message-ID: <4509348B.3060907@shadowen.org> References: <20060914091513.19826.qmail@web25812.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 14 12:53:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNoqd-0001uI-Hd for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:53:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751161AbWINKx3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:53:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751182AbWINKx3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:53:29 -0400 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:30218 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751161AbWINKx2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:53:28 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by hellhawk.shadowen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GNoq5-00007b-Cp; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:53:01 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060812) To: moreau francis In-Reply-To: <20060914091513.19826.qmail@web25812.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: moreau francis wrote: > Hi GIT folks, > > I'm reading git source code and falling on this stupid question: > Why sometime open(2) is used and other time fopen(3) is > prefered. I'm sorry for this dump question but I have no clue. It looks very much from a quick random sampling, that open is used where we are going to mmap the file for quick access. fopen otherwise. -apw