Re: master has some toys

Hi,

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Alex Riesen wrote:

As it turned out, not the git.c is guilty, but the missing
NO_MMAP=YesPlease in Cygwin section. I had it for a long time and
accidentally removed by the recent pull. BTW, I couldn't find nowhere
on original branch. Was it never submitted?

It was not, because someone (Peter?) had success without NO_MMAP=YesPlease 
on cygwin. So it was decided to keep NO_MMAP an option which has to be 
provided by the user.

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Ideally I should get a cygwin environment myself, but for that
first I need to procure Windows box.  Or does cygwin run on
Wine, and if so is cygwin running on Wine a good enough
approximation of the real thing?

It does not. The problem with mmap is a problem which stems from working 
around Windows not being POSIX. Also note that the problem goes poof in a 
gdb session. I tend to think it is a timing problem in conjunction with 
the (very conservative) Antivirus setting.

Ciao,
Dscho