From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org, musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Regression: git no longer works with musl libc's regex impl
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 19:16:04 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610041915320.35196@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161004161130.GX19318@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Hi Rich,
On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Rich Felker wrote:
> 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...
Git for Windows actually uses the MSVC runtime, which is blazing fast.
You are probably confusing Git for Windows with Cygwin Git.
Ciao,
Johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-04 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-04 15:08 Regression: git no longer works with musl libc's regex impl Rich Felker
2016-10-04 15:27 ` Jeff King
2016-10-04 15:40 ` Rich Felker
2016-10-04 16:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-04 16:11 ` Rich Felker
2016-10-04 17:16 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2016-10-04 18:00 ` Ray Donnelly
2016-10-04 17:39 ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2016-10-05 11:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-05 13:01 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-10-05 13:15 ` Rich Felker
2016-10-04 22:06 ` James B
2016-10-04 22:33 ` Rich Felker
2016-10-04 22:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-05 13:11 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-10-05 16:15 ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2016-10-05 10:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-05 11:59 ` James B
2016-10-05 16:11 ` Jeff King
2016-10-05 16:27 ` Rich Felker
2016-10-06 10:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-06 19:18 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2016-10-06 19:23 ` Jeff King
2016-10-06 19:25 ` Rich Felker
2016-10-06 19:28 ` Jeff King
2016-10-06 22:42 ` Ramsay Jones
2016-10-07 11:30 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-10-04 16:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
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