Yakov Lerner, Sun, Jul 16, 2006 17:03:49 +0200: > Cygwin has mmap. But cygwin's mmap() not good enough for git. > What happens is that git does rename() when target file has active mmap(). > In cygwin, this makes rename() to fail. This is what makes cygwin's > mmap unusable for git. (BTW for read-only git access, mmap() will work > on cygwin, for what I saw. But attempts to modify index will break). It is not Cygwin really. It's windows. You can't rename or delete an open or mmapped file in that thing. - : 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