Re: [PATCH 0/17] Sliding window mmap for packfiles.

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have to say i am very much impressed (I've taken a look at
> only the first half up to #11, though).  How much has this been
> used in real projects?

None yet.  I just finished remerging it onto current git.git code.

> A couple of comments:
> 
> [3/17]
> 
> I think losing "p->next = NULL" does not matter with the callers
> we have right now, but somehow this part makes me feel uneasy.

That's a bug in that patch.  I removed it by mistake.  Good catch.
 
> [5/17]
> 
> I think it makes sense to exit(0) for the existing write_or_die
> upon EPIPE because that indicates we are the upstream of the
> pipe and the reading process has exit (i.e. user said 'q' to
> less while we still have more to say).  
> 
> I suspect the symmetry would not hold for read_or_die; when we
> are reading, EPIPE is not any different from any other errors
> (except for EAGAIN or EINTR which we already take care of in
> xread()) and the net effect is that we could not read what we
> wanted to.

Oh, good point.

-- 
Shawn.
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