From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Wruck Subject: Re: [BUG] git cat-file does not terminate Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:51:46 +0100 Message-ID: <4D77DA52.7050701@tweerlei.de> References: <4D70E340.3050309@tweerlei.de> <20110304154014.GE24660@m62s10.vlinux.de> <20110304160047.GA9662@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vzkpa7qmp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20110308211423.GB4594@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vwrk9cjib.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4D779385.3070602@tweerlei.de> <7vzkp49jk3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff King , Peter Baumann , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 09 20:51:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PxPQI-0007Yv-KY for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:51:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751946Ab1CITvt (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2011 14:51:49 -0500 Received: from mail.tweerlei.de ([88.198.48.46]:37610 "EHLO mail.tweerlei.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751740Ab1CITvs (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2011 14:51:48 -0500 Received: from [10.0.1.3] (e177232106.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.177.232.106]) by mail.tweerlei.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5A6FB277EA; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 20:51:47 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101125 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.11 In-Reply-To: <7vzkp49jk3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on hydra.tweerlei.de Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > Thanks; it is not very critical so don't spend too much effort trying to > find a way to do so at runtime. We can always use the approach Jeff's > Makefile patch took to make it safe (and potentially slow) by default on > all Cygwin while still allowing people on an unaffected version to turn > the workaround off while building. The write() issue will presumably be fixed in the next cygwin release. I already have a version that works on WinXP where it used to fail. -Robert