Re: large files and low memory

* Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

Shawn Pearce wrote:

quoted

The mmap() isn't the problem.  Its the allocation of a buffer that is
larger than the file in order to hold the result of deflating the file
before it gets written to disk.

Wasn't this already fixed, at least in some cases?

commit 9892bebafe0865d8f4f3f18d60a1cfa2d1447cd7 (tags/v1.7.0.2~11^2~1)
Author: Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref]
Date:   Sat Feb 20 23:27:31 2010 -0500

I guess I'll have to do a update.

But: latest tag (1.7.3.1) doesnt build:


    CC read-cache.o
    read-cache.c: In function `fill_stat_cache_info':
    read-cache.c:73: structure has no member named `st_ctim'
    read-cache.c:74: structure has no member named `st_mtim'
    read-cache.c: In function `read_index_from':
    read-cache.c:1334: structure has no member named `st_mtim'
    read-cache.c: In function `write_index':
    read-cache.c:1614: structure has no member named `st_mtim'
    make: *** [read-cache.o] Fehler 1
    
Is my libc too old ?


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