Hello John, >> This thought also crossed my mind, however we already pass grep_opt to >> start_threads() function, so I think passing it to wait_all() is not >> that ugly, and kind of symmetric. And I do not like the idea of >> duplicating same information in different places. What do you think? > The grep_opt in start_threads() is being passed through to run(), so it > seems slightly different to me. If the threads were being setup in > grep.c (as opposed to builtin/grep.c) then I'd agree that it belongs in > grep_opt, but since this is local to this particular user of the grep > infrastructure adding num_threads to the grep_opt structure at all feels > wrong to me. > Note that I wasn't suggesting passing num_threads as a parameter to > wait_all(), but rather having it as global state that is accessed by > wait_all() in the same way as the `threads` array. > If we rename use_threads to num_threads and just use that, then we only > have the information in one place don't we? Yeah, I understood your idea. So we parse config_value directly to static int num_threads; /* old use_threads */ And use it internally in builtin/grep.c. I think you are right. Looks like grep_cmd_config() is the right place to parse it. Something like: --- a/builtin/grep.c +++ b/builtin/grep.c @@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ static int wait_all(struct grep_opt *opt) static int grep_cmd_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb) { int st = grep_config(var, value, cb); + if (thread_config(var, value, cb) < 0) + st = -1; if (git_color_default_config(var, value, cb) < 0) st = -1; return st; What do you think? -- Best Regards, Victor -- 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