From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:00:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Fix 'git log' early pager startup error case
Message-ID: <4C74BFA7.1090907@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100825013625.GC10423@burratino>

Am 8/25/2010 3:36, schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
> Mingw Git uses spawnvpe now, but Cygwin users might still suffer from
> fork() troubles.  I think it should be possible to work around that by
> using posix_spawn() from start_command() on such platforms (or
> someting similar).

Just FYI, posix_spawn() is not sufficiently capable for the demands of
start_command(): It doesn't allow to set a new CWD for the spawned process.

-- Hannes