> The problem is not mmap() on cygwin, but that a fork() has to jump through > loops to reinstall the open file descriptors on cygwin. If the > corresponding file was deleted, that fails. Therefore, we work around that > on cygwin by actually reading the file into memory, *not* mmap()ing it. Maybe, but you aren't going to be able to handler much bigger packs even on *nix. Unless you go 64-bit, that is. M. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html