On Sunday 18 November 2007 01:42, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > This change again originates from the MinGW port. Since we don't > > have fork(2) on Windows, we must run the sideband demultiplexer > > in a thread. > > If the rationale was "running in a thread is more natural on the > platform", I would understand it. Please take it as such. > But "_must_ run because there is no fork(2)" solicits a "Huh? > How does Cygwin does it then?" from me. Alex has answered this. We are not going to copy Cygwin's fork() into git. -- Hannes - 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
