Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/17] Fully activate the sliding window pack access.

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:34:18 -0700

According to Linus Torvalds on 12/23/2006 11:44 AM:
> 
> In particular, in any setup that doesn't like mmap() at all (eg Cygwin), 
...
> So maybe you should make the default depend on NO_MMAP (although it would 
> seem that the default Makefile makes Cygwin actually default to using mmap 
> these days, so maybe it's not a big deal).

Indeed, on cygwin, using the 1.4.4.3 Makefile setting where NO_MMAP is
commented out, I have not seemed to have any mmap problems.

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