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From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: "Andreas Ericsson" <ae@op5.se>, "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@gmail.com>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <junkio@cox.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, davidk@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [PATCH/POLL] git-format-patch: the default suffix is now .patch, not .txt
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:52:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0701180752x1664f661o17ce78a7024590f3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070118152620.GB15428@spearce.org>

On 1/18/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > don't think so. I _would_ cry seeing how fork(2) gets ported to Windows,
> > and you will, probably... after seeing how it is done in cygwin.
>
> AFAIK there's not a strong reason to keep fork() in Git.
>
> Currently anytime we fork a process its to perform a small amount
> of file descriptor redirection and then immediately exec some other
> executable, or a hook script.  In other words we probably could
> convert all current uses of fork to something like in run-command.c,
> which a Windows port could then easily replace using CreateProcess().

I count 17 instances (excluding run_command). At least fetch-pack
is not trivial (the sideband code. Could be done in a  thread, which
is not portable just as well).

> But removing fork isn't worth doing until someone is seriously
> trying to port Git onto Windows without Cygwin.  The current code
> works on sane OSes and isn't broken, so why fix it?

Right.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-18 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-17 13:10 [RFC] Add a suffix option to git-format-patch Josh Boyer
2007-01-17 13:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-17 14:50   ` Josh Boyer
2007-01-17 16:39   ` Horst H. von Brand
2007-01-17 19:18   ` [PATCH] Introduce 'git-format-patch --suffix=patch' Junio C Hamano
2007-01-17 19:20     ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-01-17 19:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-17 19:51         ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-01-17 19:57           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-17 20:08             ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-01-17 20:22     ` [PATCH] Make format-patch --suffix="" not add any suffix Brian Gernhardt
2007-01-18  1:11     ` [PATCH] Introduce 'git-format-patch --suffix=patch' Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-17 15:43 ` [RFC] Add a suffix option to git-format-patch David Kågedal
2007-01-17 16:57   ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-17 17:05     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-17 17:33   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-17 18:15     ` David Kågedal
2007-01-17 20:18     ` Josh Boyer
2007-01-17 20:20       ` Josh Boyer
     [not found]       ` <7vsle9p8pg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2007-01-18  0:06         ` [PATCH/POLL] git-format-patch: the default suffix is now .patch, not .txt Junio C Hamano
2007-01-18  1:06           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-18  7:59           ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18  8:06             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-18  8:18               ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18  9:10                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-18  9:21                   ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18  8:43             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-18  9:35               ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 11:52                 ` Josh Boyer
2007-01-18 13:33                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-18 13:46                     ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 13:40                   ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 14:10                     ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-18 14:15                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-18 14:41                       ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 14:49                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-18 14:53                           ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 15:16                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-18 15:37                               ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 15:42                                 ` Josh Boyer
2007-01-18 20:03                                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-18 20:12                                     ` Josh Boyer
2007-01-18 15:26                         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-18 15:52                           ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2007-01-18 19:29                             ` Steven Grimm
2007-01-18 19:57                               ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-18 16:09                           ` Johannes Sixt
2007-01-19 10:11                         ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-18 15:42                     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-18 16:05                       ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 16:29                       ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-18 16:51                         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-18 17:03                           ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-18 19:30                           ` Martin Langhoff
2007-01-18 19:19                         ` Martin Langhoff
2007-01-18 12:40               ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-18 15:10                 ` Lukas Sandström
2007-01-18 15:29                 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-01-18  9:57             ` Alexandre Julliard

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