From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:37:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] add post-fetch hook Message-ID: <7v8vly8qqx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20111226155152.GA29582@gnu.kitenet.net> Joey Hess writes: > .... And other code in git uses an async feeder similarly, > see for example convert.c's apply_filter(). So I think this is ok..? Yeah, I didn't look at your patch (sorry) but if it uses async like the filtering codepath does, it should be perfectly fine (please forget about the select(2) based kludge I alluded to; the async interface is the right thing to use here). Thanks.