From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:01:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/40] Windows: Implement asynchronous functions as threads.
Message-ID: <200802282201.06802.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802281525510.22527@racer.site>

On Thursday 28 February 2008 16:28, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > In upload-pack we must explicitly close the output channel of rev-list.
> > (On Unix, the channel is closed automatically because process that runs
> > rev-list terminates.)
>
> When I read this patch, my impression was that it litters the source code
> with #ifdef's.  IMO this makes the code less readable, and as a
> consequence easer to fsck up.
>
> Unfortunately, I have no idea how to help that, other than implementing
> compat/thread.[ch], abstracting the thread functions, and introducing a
> NO_FORK Makefile variable and preprocessor constant.
>
> Hmpf.

The number of #ifdef/#endif is already at a minimum unless you are willing to 
have entire functions in separate #ifdef/#else/#endif branches. Whether to 
have compat/thread.[ch] or not is just a question of whether you want to have 
asynchronous functions in threads also on Unix or not.

-- Hannes