On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> writes: > >> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >> Do we have any reasons for that, or pointers on the mailing list, that this >> is a good idea or needed? Does it fix a bug or enable a new feature on >> Darwin? > > BSD lets you open() a directory for reading and hence we require > this workaround on it; I think somebody in an earlier round > suspected that that Darwin would have inherited the same from its > BSD lineage, and I don't see a reason to contradict with that > suspicion, either. >
Sorry about not being clear: I - just like some future reader - did not have the context of the previous round, so please put this information into the commit message. Thanks, Stefan
