From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:51:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git daemon: avoid waking up too often
Message-ID: <4886D503.7030106@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807222302440.8986@racer>

Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> To avoid waking up unnecessarily, a pipe is set up that is only ever
> written to by child_handler(), when a child disconnects, as suggested
> per Junio.
> 
> This avoids waking up the main process every second to see if a child
> was disconnected.

This makes porting this beast to Windows practically impossible because we
cannot have a poll() implementation that waits both on a listening socket
and a pipe. :-(

-- Hannes