On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 02:59:33AM +0100, Adam Spiers wrote: > check-attr and check-ignore have the potential to deadlock callers > which do not read back the output in real-time. For example, if a > caller writes N paths out and then reads N lines back in, it risks > becoming blocked on write() to check-*, and check-* is blocked on > write back to the caller. Somebody has to buffer; the pipe buffers > provide some leeway, but they are limited. > > Thanks to Peff for pointing this out: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/220534 > > Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, I think the documentation changes look sane. -Peff -- 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