From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:37:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] upload-archive: use start_command instead of fork
Message-ID: <4E388A55.6080606@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110802181357.GA1861@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Am 02.08.2011 20:13, schrieb Jeff King:
> Hmm. So it's not _just_ the pipe vs file thing. What's different about
> calling it from the shell, versus the way we call it from git-archive?

When the parent process of an MSYS process is itself an MSYS process,
such as bash, then the child does not do its own
binary-mode-vs.-text-mode detection, but just uses whatever it is told
by the parent. This is achieved by MSYS's fork emulation.

But if the parent is a regular Windows program, such as git(-archive),
then the autodection happens and file descriptors pointing to files are
put into text mode.

-- Hannes