On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 10.04.2017 um 19:01 schrieb Jeff King:
>>
>> I wonder if you could make it a general test-lib function, like:
>>
>> run_and_wait () {
>> # we read stdout from the child only for the side effect
>> # of waiting until all child sub-processes exit, closing their
>> # fd 9.
>> does_not_matter=$("$@" 9>&1)
>
>
> I'm afraid this won't work on Windows when the invoked command is git. FD
> inheritance between MSYS (bash) and non-MSYS programs (git) is only
> implemented for FDs 0,1,2. That's a deficiency of MSYS, and I don't think
> that was improved in MSYS2.
Oh, that's a pity, I was almost ready with v2...
Unfortunately, this makes the general helper function unworkable, of
course. Though in this particular case it wouldn't matter, because on
Windows daemonize() is basically a noop and 'git gc --auto' remains in
the foreground anyway.
I think we should stick with my initial patch, then.