From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:59:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [tig PATCH] continue updates when pipe read has errno "Success"
Message-ID: <20080822155914.GB5280@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <2c6b72b30808220310v1083e860tef9fd6efa57767e3@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:10:35PM +0200, Jonas Fonseca wrote:

> Thanks for the fix/workaround!

Thank you for making tig. ;)

> For a possible "better" fix, I have been working on moving tig to use
> the run-command.[ch] code from git, which means that ferror() will no
> longer be needed. It is still not ready but looks promising.

I think that would be much cleaner, as the semantics of system calls and
signals tend to be better defined.

-Peff