From: Brandon Williams Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 17:54:28 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] forking and threading Message-ID: <20170411175428.GG36152@google.com> In-Reply-To: <20170411173712.GN8741@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com> On 04/11, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Brandon Williams wrote: > Jonathan Tan had an idea about how to side-step the issue: what if > "grep" forks an appropriate set of child processes before creating any > threads and then communicates with those children using pipes? > Because no threads have been spawned yet in the children, the child > processes can use ordinary run_command. When run_command finishes, > the child is still available to launch another command using > run_command. While that would be one way to solve the issue, I think that doing that would require more work refactoring and make grep's code path more complex than making the adjustments in run-command itself. -- Brandon Williams