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
