Also sprach Shawn O. Pearce am Sun, 07 Jan 2007 at 06:24:45 -0500:
Better to emulate pread using lseek/xread/lseek:
off_t p = lseek(fd, offset, SEEK_SET);
xread(fd, buf, count);
lseek(fd, p, SEEK_SET);
If you look at the history for contrib/mmap.c you will see an
implementation like that before it was called git_mmap().
This doesn't work;I tried it before.
Stefan
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