[darcs-users] darcs patch: Use index-based diffing in Record. (and 32 more)

Petr Rockai me at mornfall.net
Wed Jul 22 10:39:49 UTC 2009


Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> writes:
> Roll back the getSymbolicLinkStatus workaround, since it constitutes a fd leak.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -                     -- size <- fileSize `fmap` getSymbolicLinkStatus f
>> -                     -- GHC 6.8.2 returns garbage, workaround:
>> -                     size <- hFileSize =<< openBinaryFile f ReadMode
>> +                     size <- fileSize `fmap` getSymbolicLinkStatus f
>
> I've applied this.
> Does this mean dropping GHC 6.8 support for the next Darcs release?
No -- the patch we are rolling back is not part of the 2.3 release either. We
simply say that "mmap + 6.8.2" is not supported -- see the beta 2 or so
announce, the "What about GHC 6.8" blurb.

Yours,
   Petr.


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