From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch-pack: Prepare for a side-band demultiplexer in a thread.
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:05:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071118010532.GC7664@steel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtznkz8nw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano, Sun, Nov 18, 2007 01:42:11 +0100:
> Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> writes:
>
> > This change again originates from the MinGW port. Since we don't
> > have fork(2) on Windows, we must run the sideband demultiplexer
> > in a thread.
>
> If the rationale was "running in a thread is more natural on the
> platform", I would understand it.
>
> But "_must_ run because there is no fork(2)" solicits a "Huh?
> How does Cygwin does it then?" from me.
>
You wont believe it: they start the currently running program again
and copy parents memory over into the child. Sometimes it fails.
If you want something scary:
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/fork.cc?rev=1.193&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-18 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-17 22:09 [PATCH] fetch-pack: Prepare for a side-band demultiplexer in a thread Johannes Sixt
2007-11-18 0:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-18 1:05 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2007-11-18 9:36 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-11-18 10:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-18 12:23 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-11-18 11:03 ` Robin Rosenberg
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