From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Matthias Lederhofer" <matled@gmx.net>,
"Jürgen Rühle" <j-r@online.de>, "Eric Blake" <eblake@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Fix 'git log' early pager startup error case
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:00:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C74BFA7.1090907@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100825013625.GC10423@burratino>
Am 8/25/2010 3:36, schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
> Mingw Git uses spawnvpe now, but Cygwin users might still suffer from
> fork() troubles. I think it should be possible to work around that by
> using posix_spawn() from start_command() on such platforms (or
> someting similar).
Just FYI, posix_spawn() is not sufficiently capable for the demands of
start_command(): It doesn't allow to set a new CWD for the spawned process.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-25 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-24 17:33 Fix 'git log' early pager startup error case Linus Torvalds
2010-08-25 1:36 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-25 7:00 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2010-08-25 14:22 ` Eric Blake
2010-08-26 6:18 ` setting working dir in posix_spawn() (Re: Fix 'git log' early pager startup error case) Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-26 7:16 ` Joshua Juran
2010-08-26 14:13 ` Eric Blake
2010-08-25 19:16 ` Fix 'git log' early pager startup error case Junio C Hamano
2010-08-25 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
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