Re: Regression: git no longer works with musl libc's regex impl

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On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 06:08:33PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi Rich,
> 
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:27:22AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:08:48AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 1. is nonzero mod page size, it just works; the remainder of the last
> > > >    page reads as zero bytes when mmapped.
> > > 
> > > Is that a portable assumption?
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> No, it is not. You quote POSIX, but the matter of the fact is that we use
> a subset of POSIX in order to be able to keep things running on Windows.
> 
> And quite honestly, there are lots of reasons to keep things running on
> Windows, and even to favor Windows support over musl support. Over four
> million reasons: the Git for Windows users.

I would hope that in the future, git-for-windows users will be using
musl, via midipix, rather than the painfully slow and awful version
they're stuck with now...

Rich



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