Re: [PATCH 22/40] Windows: Implement asynchronous functions as threads.

From: Paul Franz <thefranz@comcast.net>
Date: Feb 28, 2008, 17:48 UTC
Message-ID: <47C6F40A.4010703@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802281525510.22527@racer.site>

This reminds me of a crazy idea and I know it would be quite a bit of work. Do you think it would be possible to change git to use Apache's apr library? The benefit would be that the cross platform stuff is already written. I understand that it would not be tweaked to be optimized for git's usage. But it would allow people to focus on the heart of the git and not the way git interacts with the OS level stuff. Obviously, the scripts that make up part of git are not as portable but that is a different animal unless you want to either support a cross platform scripting language as part of git.

As I said it is a crazy idea.

Paul Franz

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> 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.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
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