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Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] fix "Funny: git -p submodule summary"

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 28, 2009, 07:30 UTC
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<20090128073059.GD19165@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 05:31:02PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> I like the patch series, well designed and concise (especially with the 
> fixes Hannes proposed).

Good. Response seems positive, so I will drop the RFC, then, and post a fixed-up series meant for inclusion.

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> > There are two potential downsides to the fix:
> > 
> >  1. There is an extra fork and a parent process sitting in memory for
> >     dashed externals. This is pretty necessary to any fix, since
> >     something has to wait to do pager cleanup, and we can't rely on the
> >     child to do so.
> 
> Actually, I think this is a good thing; that way, we can catch 
> segmentation fault properly and display an error message in the pager.  
> That was not possible previously.

True. On the other hand, most of our externals are shell scripts. It's the builtins that segfault, and we don't have a watcher process for that. :)

-Peff
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Message 34 of 41 in “Funny: git -p submodule summary”
  1. Johannes SchindelinJan 8, 2009
  2. Johannes SchindelinJan 8, 2009
  3. Jeff KingJan 9, 2009
  4. Jeff KingJan 9, 2009
  5. Jeff KingJan 9, 2009
  6. Johannes SixtJan 9, 2009
  7. Jeff KingJan 9, 2009
  8. Johannes SixtJan 9, 2009
  9. Jeff KingJan 9, 2009
  10. Jeff KingJan 11, 2009
  11. 1/4 Makefile: clean up TEST_PROGRAMS definitionJeff King, Jan 11, 2009
  12. 2/4 chain kill signals for cleanup functionsJeff King, Jan 11, 2009
  13. Jeff KingJan 11, 2009
  14. 3/4 refactor signal handling for cleanup functionsJeff King, Jan 11, 2009
  15. 4/4 pager: do wait_for_pager on signal deathJeff King, Jan 11, 2009
  16. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2009
  17. Johannes SixtJan 12, 2009
  18. Jeff KingJan 12, 2009
  19. Johannes SixtJan 12, 2009
  20. Jeff KingJan 12, 2009
  21. Johannes SixtJan 12, 2009
  22. Junio C HamanoJan 9, 2009
  23. Jeff KingJan 9, 2009
  24. Junio C HamanoJan 9, 2009
  25. 0/3 fix "Funny: git -p submodule summary"Jeff King, Jan 27, 2009
  26. 1/3 git: s/run_command/run_builtin/Jeff King, Jan 27, 2009
  27. 2/3 run_command: handle missing command errors more gracefullyJeff King, Jan 27, 2009
  28. 3/3 git: use run_command to execute dashed externalsJeff King, Jan 27, 2009
  29. Johannes SixtJan 27, 2009
  30. Jeff KingJan 27, 2009
  31. Johannes SixtJan 27, 2009
  32. Jeff KingJan 28, 2009
  33. Johannes SchindelinJan 27, 2009
  34. Jeff KingJan 28, 2009
  35. 1/4 git: s/run_command/run_builtin/Jeff King, Jan 28, 2009
  36. 2/4 run_command: handle missing command errors more gracefullyJeff King, Jan 28, 2009
  37. 3/4 run-command: help callers distinguish errorsJeff King, Jan 28, 2009
  38. Jeff KingJan 28, 2009
  39. Jeff KingJan 28, 2009
  40. 4/4 git: use run_command to execute dashed externalsJeff King, Jan 28, 2009
  41. Junio C HamanoJan 28, 2009

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