(adding msysgit list to cc for a Windows question) Hi, (regarding bidirectional communication between git and fast-import for remote helpers) Florian Achleitner wrote: > People didn't like pipe variant (prexec_cb not being compatible to windows' > process creation model), so I learned about fifos and implemented a (basic) fifo > variant. *shrug* Is this meant as a summary of [1]? Hannes wrote: | The second problem is more severe and is at the lowest level of our | infrastructure: We set up our child processes so that they know only about | file descriptors other than 0,1,2 to the child process. Even if the first | problem were solved, the child process does not receive sufficient | information to know that there are open file descriptors other than 0,1,2. | There is a facility to pass along this information from the parent to the | child, but we simply do not implement it. It sounds to me like the pipe model would work fine on Windows, and it would just require some porting work (out of scope for this summer of code project). Am I misunderstanding? Thanks, Jonathan [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/199216 -- 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