Hi, On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Juergen Ruehle wrote: > Johannes claims that there are additional problems with mmap on cygwin, > but it passes the complete test suite on NTFS, so it should be ok for > most operations I encountered a problem with git-log, where the fork() tried to reestablish a mmap()ed file, which unfortunately was renamed (since it was a .lock file[*1*]). This triggered the implementation of NO_MMAP. I am sure that there are more problems with it. BTW the problem stems from Windows having _no_ equivalent to fork(). Notefoot 1: Isn't it funny that Windows cannot delete files which are still opened, but does not care when it is renamed? Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: 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