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.

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