From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:09:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Funny: git -p submodule summary
Message-ID: <49672244.80200@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090109092250.GA1809@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King schrieb:
> Below is a patch that uses the three-process mechanism, and it fixes the
> problem. _But_ it is not satisfactory for inclusion, because it won't
> work on MINGW32. Since it is actually splitting git into two processes
> (one to monitor the pager and one to actually run git), it uses fork.

We have start_async()/finish_async() to replace a fork() of the sort that
we have here.

> IOW, I think
> the breakage you are seeing has always been broken on MINGW32.

Indeed. Hitting Ctrl-C while the pager was open has messed up the console
since day 1.

-- Hannes