From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:42:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch-pack: Prepare for a side-band demultiplexer in a thread.
Message-ID: <7vtznkz8nw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200711172309.28364.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>

Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> writes:

> 	This change again originates from the MinGW port. Since we don't
> 	have fork(2) on Windows, we must run the sideband demultiplexer
> 	in a thread.

If the rationale was "running in a thread is more natural on the
platform", I would understand it.

But "_must_ run because there is no fork(2)" solicits a "Huh?
How does Cygwin does it then?" from me.