From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] If NO_MMAP is defined, fake mmap() and munmap() Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:44:22 -0700 Message-ID: <7vwtkoyjs9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 08 01:46:00 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EO1t7-0007Qv-OC for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2005 01:44:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964879AbVJGXo1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:44:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964880AbVJGXo0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:44:26 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao04.cox.net ([68.230.241.35]:11398 "EHLO fed1rmmtao04.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964879AbVJGXo0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:44:26 -0400 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.4.9.127]) by fed1rmmtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20051007234408.OPEQ29747.fed1rmmtao04.cox.net@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:44:08 -0400 To: Johannes Schindelin In-Reply-To: (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Sat, 8 Oct 2005 00:55:40 +0200 (CEST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin writes: > Since some platforms do not support mmap() at all, and others do only just > so, this patch introduces the option to fake mmap() and munmap() by > malloc()ing and read()ing explicitely. I guess I can just drop Alex Riesen patch and any other recent patches that try to work around mmap(). Happy!