Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> ...
>> That's a lot more tedious "if (!in_signal)" checks, but:
>>
>> - we don't have to duplicate any of the actual application logic
>>
>> - we'd now cover the extra cases for waitpid failing or returning the
>> wrong pid (previously if waitpid() failed we'd still look at status,
>> which could contain complete garbage!)
> ...
> Yeah, the repeated "if (!in_signal)" look a bit ugly, but fixing
> that "we only deal with ifexited in in_signal case" to do the right
> thing would make the code even more annoying and harder to maintain.
Eh, what I meant was that it would be annoying and harder to
maintain, if done inside the single "if (in_signal) { ... }" near
the beginning. (IOW, I am completely in agreement with your
reasoning above).
