Re: windows problems summary

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> This is just to summarize all the problems which make porting to that
> thing so boring. Maybe if we have them all on one page, it'd be easier
> to locate the workarounds (it can be one thread, for example).
>
> 1. opened and mmaped files can't be removed or renamed
>   (caused workaround with reading index in memory)
> 2. command can safely contain only one argument
>   (breaks and complicates passing things between processes)
> 3. no fork
>   (slows down and complicates passing things between processes)
> 4. non-unix permissions model
>   (breaks x-attr)
> 5. real slow filesystems and caching
>   (makes everything slow. I noticed I'm trying to avoid git status!).
>   Caused workaround with manual checkout)
> 6. real slow program startup
>   (makes everything slow, eventually may cause everything being put
>   in one super-executable, just to avoid spawning new processes,
>   with all associated problems. Makes scripting harder)
>
> I hope this message can be a start of a big porting thread,
> even though it is only about windows at the moment.

Not to forget make install gets confused when there
is a file named INSTALL in the git directory.

Eric