On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 11:09:08AM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote: > > Below is a patch that uses the three-process mechanism, and it fixes the > > problem. _But_ it is not satisfactory for inclusion, because it won't > > work on MINGW32. Since it is actually splitting git into two processes > > (one to monitor the pager and one to actually run git), it uses fork. > > We have start_async()/finish_async() to replace a fork() of the sort that > we have here. It looks like start_async is implemented using threads on Windows. Will that survive an execvp call? Because we don't know at this point whether we are going to actually run builtin code, or if we will exec an external. -Peff -- 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
