From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 06:14:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] run-parallel: rename set_nonblocking to set_nonblocking_or_die
Message-ID: <xmqqfv0l7z2r.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <563AF229.1060302@web.de>

Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:

> (Jumping into an old discussion, I may be off topic)

I think this is exactly the latest "I wonder" from Peff, to which I
said "well, perhaps we didn't need nonblock after all from the
beginning".

> And this work regardless if the fd blocking or not, so from that point of view,
> the set_nonblocking() is not needed at all.
>
> The major question is, if the poll() works under Windows, (and I
> haven't found time to dig further)

;-)