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Date: Thu,  7 Feb 2019 13:59:04 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] any git client?
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On Tue, Feb 5, 2019, at 10:42 AM, Emery Hemingway wrote:
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> Libgit2 *is not* portable. They use mmap everywhere for I/O, which breaks
> for 9P or NFS.

I'm pretty sure I once figured out how to emulate mmap, at least in a general way.  Maybe it was relying on the process to call the flush routine.  Flushing could also happen on a timer or atexit or whatever.