Re: Cygwin can't handle huge packfiles?

From: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-04-04 00:26:27
> The problem is not mmap() on cygwin, but that a fork() has to jump through
> loops to reinstall the open file descriptors on cygwin. If the
> corresponding file was deleted, that fails. Therefore, we work around that
> on cygwin by actually reading the file into memory, *not* mmap()ing it.

Maybe, but you aren't going to be able to handler much bigger packs
even on *nix.  Unless you go 64-bit, that is.

M.
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