Re: [PATCH] fetch-pack: Prepare for a side-band demultiplexer in a thread.

From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Date: Nov 18, 2007, 09:36 UTC
Message-ID: <200711181036.14565.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
In-Reply-To: <7vtznkz8nw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sunday 18 November 2007 01:42, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 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.

Please take it as such.

> But "_must_ run because there is no fork(2)" solicits a "Huh?
> How does Cygwin does it then?" from me.

Alex has answered this. We are not going to copy Cygwin's fork() into git.

-- Hannes