Re: git status in clean working dir

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:44:00AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > We could also swap the parent/child relationship, and have the pager 
> > as child. But I assume that it is done the way we have it because 
> > otherwise the shell gets confused about when the command ends (i.e., 
> > we want it to run until pager completion). I didn't test, though.
> 
> Hmm, it looks like the MINGW32 codepath already _does_ spawn in that 
> order, but has a "wait_for_child" atexit handler. I wonder if there is a 
> reason all platforms can't use that trick (though the mingw approach 
> uses run_command, which makes it harder to do the "wait for input before 
> starting less" trick).