Hi, [email protected] (Trent W. Buck) writes: > In particular, I note that all files in the bytestring-mmap repo have: > > Stability : provisional > Portability: non-portable -- posix only > > are either of these a cause for concern? Is our existing NIH mmap > implementation used on Windows? (I assume Windows' POSIX support isn't > adequate for "posix only".) no, mmap is never used on windows by darcs (particularly because the win32 API is pretty different). There's a portable mmap package on Hackage that uses native win32 call on windows, but this is something of an adventurous step. The patch is a fairly conservative change.
I wouldn't grade our internal mmap implementation anything better than provisional either. Yours, Petr. -- Peter Rockai | me()mornfall!net | prockai()redhat!com http://blog.mornfall.net | http://web.mornfall.net "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt." -- Blair P. Houghton on the subject of C program indentation _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
