Re: [PATCH 2/5] run-command: kill children on exit by default

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 12:42:44PM +0100, Clemens Buchacher wrote:
>
>> It feels natural for a user to view git commands as monolithic
>> commands with a single thread of execution. If the parent git
>> command dies, it should therefore clean up its child processes as
>> well. So enable the cleanup mechanism by default.
>
> I'm not sure this is a good idea. run_command is used in ~70 places in
> git, and I'm sure at least one of them is going to be unhappy (I see you
> found one in credential-cache, but how many others are there). I'd
> rather be conservative and leave the default the same, and then switch
> over callsites that make sense.

Yeah, I agree 100% with that reasoning. I seem to recall that was how this
commit was done in what I privately reviewed after Clemens announced his
github branch?
--
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


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel Development]     [Gcc Help]     [IETF Annouce]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Networking]     [Security]     [V4L]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]     [Fedora Users]