From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: Re: Looking for help to understand external filter driver code
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 11:53:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqlh0xfoho.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbn1th5qn.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:56:00 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> The key benefit of this arrangement is the above can be done without
> having to do poll() to flip between reading and writing that is
> needed to avoid deadlocking, which kept the code simpler. A later
> conversion of the write side into async does not fundamentally
> change anything from the original arrangement.
Translation: I was too lazy to worry about doing poll()/select()
when I did it originally. As long as you can do so correctly, be my
guest to reduce one process by having the main process do both
reading and writing.
;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-19 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-19 16:40 Looking for help to understand external filter driver code Lars Schneider
2016-07-19 17:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-19 18:53 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-07-19 20:44 ` Lars Schneider
2016-07-19 21:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-19 22:01 ` Lars Schneider
2016-07-20 2:33 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2016-07-20 8:59 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-07-20 9:43 ` Lars Schneider
2016-07-20 13:49 ` Jeff King
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