From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:09:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/14] fork/exec removal series
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710141808300.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071014071239.GB1198@artemis.corp>

Hi,

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 02:58:57AM +0000, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
> > But we most definately *must* continue to support fork() for the async 
> > functions.  Its the most common interface available on one of our 
> > biggest platforms (UNIX).
> 
> Yeah that, and the fact that many of the git modules aren't thread-safe 
> (some modules have static buffers strbuf's or caching variables) and 
> should be used with care.

I think that was exactly the point of Shawn: expose bugs on Unix that 
would otherwise only show in msysGit.

Ciao,
Dscho