From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (Updated) Exec git programs without using PATH.
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:38:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C5EB5F.6000402@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43C59EC6.6070905@op5.se>
Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>
> Not being entirely knowledgeable on what spawn() actually does and how
> its semantics differ from fork() and exec*() style API's (Google was
> depressingly unhelpful and wikipedia dredged up froglings...), I've got
> a decent "clone-lots-of-processes-and-multiplex-between-them" kind of
> library lying around. Would it be of any use?
>
> From the prototypes I've seen on spawn it doesn't seem to be much more
> than a fork() + execve(), either closing or dup2'ing all the
> file-descriptors, so I don't understand why that couldn't be implemented
> for git. Some pointers, anyone?
>
RTFM(posix_spawn)...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-12 5:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-09 23:34 [PATCH 0/2] Remember and use GIT_EXEC_PATH on exec()'s Michal Ostrowski
2006-01-09 23:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Michal Ostrowski
2006-01-10 2:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-09 23:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Michal Ostrowski
2006-01-10 2:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-10 13:36 ` Michal Ostrowski
2006-01-10 15:01 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-10 16:26 ` Michal Ostrowski
2006-01-10 19:13 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-10 20:15 ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-10 20:32 ` Michal Ostrowski
[not found] ` <7vu0cb6f1n.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2006-01-10 20:29 ` Michal Ostrowski
2006-01-11 0:06 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-11 0:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-11 2:09 ` Michal Ostrowski
2006-01-11 2:12 ` [PATCH] Exec git programs without using PATH Michal Ostrowski
2006-01-11 6:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-11 17:05 ` [PATCH] (Updated) " Michal Ostrowski
2006-01-11 20:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-11 20:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-11 21:26 ` Michal Ostrowski
2006-01-11 21:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-12 0:11 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-12 5:38 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-01-10 19:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] Remember and use GIT_EXEC_PATH on exec()'s Junio C Hamano
2006-01-10 19:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-01-10 20:31 ` Michal Ostrowski
2006-01-10 21:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-01-11 0:10 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-11 0:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-11 11:57 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-11 17:11 ` Jon Loeliger
2006-01-10 21:09 ` Junio C Hamano
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