From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/10559 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general,gmane.comp.version-control.git Subject: Re: Regression: git no longer works with musl libc's regex impl Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 12:11:30 -0400 Message-ID: <20161004161130.GX19318@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20161004150848.GA7949@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20161004152722.ex2nox43oj5ak4yi@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20161004154045.GT19318@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475597523 28803 195.159.176.226 (4 Oct 2016 16:12:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 16:12:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org, musl@lists.openwall.com To: Johannes Schindelin Original-X-From: musl-return-10572-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Oct 04 18:11:59 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by blaine.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1brSJw-0006fE-8y for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:11:56 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 31919 invoked by uid 550); 4 Oct 2016 16:11:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 31886 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2016 16:11:55 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:10559 gmane.comp.version-control.git:306081 Archived-At: On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 06:08:33PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Rich, > > On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Rich Felker wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:27:22AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:08:48AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote: > > > > > > > 1. is nonzero mod page size, it just works; the remainder of the last > > > > page reads as zero bytes when mmapped. > > > > > > Is that a portable assumption? > > > > Yes. > > No, it is not. You quote POSIX, but the matter of the fact is that we use > a subset of POSIX in order to be able to keep things running on Windows. > > And quite honestly, there are lots of reasons to keep things running on > Windows, and even to favor Windows support over musl support. Over four > million reasons: the Git for Windows users. I would hope that in the future, git-for-windows users will be using musl, via midipix, rather than the painfully slow and awful version they're stuck with now... Rich