Refactor the filter.<driver>.process code into a separate sub-process module that can be used to reduce the cost of starting up a sub-process for multiple commands. It does this by keeping the external process running and processing all commands by communicating over standard input and standard output using the packet format (pkt-line) based protocol. Full documentation is in Documentation/technical/api-sub-process.txt. This code is refactored from: Commit edcc85814c ("convert: add filter.<driver>.process option", 2016-10-16) keeps the external process running and processes all commands Ben Peart (8): pkt-line: add packet_read_line_gently() convert: move packet_write_list() into pkt-line as packet_writel() convert: Split start_multi_file_filter into two separate functions convert: Separate generic structures and variables from the filter specific ones convert: Update generic functions to only use generic data structures convert: rename reusable sub-process functions sub-process: move sub-process functions into separate files convert: Update subprocess_read_status to not die on EOF Documentation/technical/api-sub-process.txt | 59 ++++++++++ Makefile | 1 + convert.c | 161 ++++++---------------------- pkt-line.c | 33 +++++- pkt-line.h | 11 ++ sub-process.c | 106 ++++++++++++++++++ sub-process.h | 49 +++++++++ 7 files changed, 291 insertions(+), 129 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/technical/api-sub-process.txt create mode 100644 sub-process.c create mode 100644 sub-process.h -- 2.12.0.windows.1.33.g243d9b384c