From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:44:00 GMT
Subject: Re: git status in clean working dir
Message-ID: <20080722044359.GB20787@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vljzur5wd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 07:48:02PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Another possibility is to set up an extra process whose sole purpose is to
> wait for the main process that feeds the pager pipe and relay its exit
> status to the outside world.  But I do not think we would want to go
> there...

We could also swap the parent/child relationship, and have the pager as
child. But I assume that it is done the way we have it because otherwise
the shell gets confused about when the command ends (i.e., we want it to
run until pager completion). I didn't test, though.

-Peff