Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > Furthermore, readers of the packfile will be using mmap
> > (or pread to emulate mmap), anyways, so the file description
> > offset does not matter in this case.
>
> s/description/descriptor/ probably.
No, I meant "description" :) The offset is shared in case of dup{,2,3}
syscalls, which only creates a new descriptor, not a new description.
Both the Linux and POSIX lseek(2) manpages say "description".
