Hi, On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Stefano Spinucci wrote: > On 12/17/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > ... > > I am sure that there are more problems with it. BTW the problem stems from > > Windows having _no_ equivalent to fork(). > > ... > > if you are sure that there are more problems with using MMAP, shouldn't > NO_MMAP be commented better in the Makefile and in INSTALL, pointing out > to use it always on cygwin ??? I argued for that a long time ago, but there were a couple "works-for-me"s and I just shut up. It could also be the case that for most operations, git became safe over time. For example, my biggest problem was the fork()ed diff in git-log, which was substituted by a non-forking inbuilt diff. > should I write to the cygwin-apps list asking for a different > compilation (with NO_MMAP), or for the majority of the users the > standard compilation is a better choice ??? Given that most Windows setups nowadays run on NTFS, I doubt that this is necessary. I use NO_MMAP myself on Windows, just in case, though. 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