On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > I don't think it matters much. The _only_ platform we really use NO_MMAP > (other than for testing) is Windows, and AFAICT it does not have pread(), > so it is emulated by lseek/read/lseek anyway. Windows definitely has pread(). It is, of course, possible that Cygwin emulates it some other way (including doing a "lseek/read/lseek" combination), but pread() should still be better - because maybe some future cygwin release ends up using the native interfaces. Linus - 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