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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 3/3] upload-archive: use start_command instead of fork
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 18:27:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110707222726.GA23424@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPQNSYZqpfGwgQXqk4YFBXhSHTen1w7m2hwaF7YDsZmsaYY5Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 12:25:00AM +0200, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 01:43:09PM +0200, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> >
> >> The POSIX-function fork is not supported on Windows. Use our
> >> start_command API instead.
> >
> > Is start_command the right solution? From my reading, the fork is
> > actually because we want to set up a sideband multiplexer. Should we not
> > just be using start_async() to start a thread, as we do in receive-pack?
> 
> I considered that, but discarded it because I figured it required me
> to plug through a file descriptor all the way through the code. But
> perhaps I was wrong, and dup2 will make that job a lot easier?

Yeah, exactly. The current code is already using dup2 in the same way.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-07 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-07 11:43 [PATCH/RFC 0/3] port upload-archive to windows Erik Faye-Lund
2011-07-07 11:43 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/3] compat/win32/sys/poll.c: upgrade from upstream Erik Faye-Lund
2011-07-07 11:43 ` [PATCH/RFC 2/3] mingw: fix compilation of poll-emulation Erik Faye-Lund
2011-07-07 11:43 ` [PATCH/RFC 3/3] upload-archive: use start_command instead of fork Erik Faye-Lund
2011-07-07 18:21   ` Johannes Sixt
2011-07-07 18:39     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-07-07 19:15   ` Jeff King
2011-07-07 22:25     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-07-07 22:27       ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-07-07 22:37         ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-07-07 22:44           ` Jeff King

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