Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] packfile: replace lseek+read with pread

From: Eric Wong <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 18:59:32 +0000

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Eric Wong <[email-masked]> writes:
> >
> > Furthermore, readers of the packfile will be using mmap
> > (or pread to emulate mmap), anyways, so the file description
> > offset does not matter in this case.
> 
> s/description/descriptor/ probably.

No, I meant "description" :)  The offset is shared in case of dup{,2,3}
syscalls, which only creates a new descriptor, not a new description.
Both the Linux and POSIX lseek(2) manpages say "description".