From: Erik Faye-Lund Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 20:00:57 GMT Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH/RFC] send-pack.c: Allow to disable side-band-64k Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20140519193340.GP12314@google.com> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Thomas Braun wrote: > >> pushing over the dump git protocol with a windows git client. > > I've never heard of the dump git protocol. Do you mean the git > protocol that's used with git:// URLs? > > [...] >> Alternative approaches considered but deemed too invasive: >> - Rewrite read/write wrappers in mingw.c in order to distinguish between >> a file descriptor which has a socket behind and a file descriptor >> which has a file behind. > > I assume here "too invasive" means "too much engineering effort"? > > It sounds like a clean fix, not too invasive at all. But I can > understand wanting a stopgap in the meantime. > Yeah, now that the problem seems to be understood, I don't think that would be too bad. I recently killed off our previous write()-wrapper in c9df6f4, but I see no reason why we can't add a new one. Would we need to wrap both ends, shouldn't wrapping only reading be good enough to prevent deadlocking? compat/poll/poll.c already contains a function called IsSocketHandle that is able to tell if a HANDLE points to a socket or not. -- -- *** Please reply-to-all at all times *** *** (do not pretend to know who is subscribed and who is not) *** *** Please avoid top-posting. *** The msysGit Wiki is here: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki - Github accounts are free. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To post to this group, send email to msysgit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, and view previous threads, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.