On Donnerstag, 14. Januar 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > Previously, failures during execvp could be detected only by > > finish_command. However, in some situations it is beneficial for the > > parent process to know earlier that the child process will not run. > > > > The idea to use a pipe to signal failures to the parent process and > > the test case were lifted from patches by Ilari Liusvaara. > > I wonder if we can do this without pipe, perhaps using "vfork, exec, then > update a variable".... Except that some systems implement vfork(2) in terms of fork(2), I heard. Moreover, I think that we do way too many things before the exec; isn't that dangerous? -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html