Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6

Hi,

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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Before anybody mentions tcl ;-).

Darn, I had my suggestion sent out: Java ;-)

I do see the smileys, but the fact is, "perl" is a hell of a lot more 
portable than either, if we want to talk executing processes and pipelines 
etc. But even perl is clearly not portable enough, and has tons of version 
skew.

Java, afaik, has absolutely _zero_ support for creating a new process and 
piping its output to another one and doing things like safe argument 
expansion. Which is what almost all of the git scripts are all about.

You are right, but for the wrong reason. Java is actually a wonderful 
thing to create new processes and talk between threads.

But Java is HUGE. No, it is rather HOOODGEEE.

And I don't know if something like Lua does any good. The problem is not 
so much the language. It is the fork().

AFAIAC, cygwin is pretty good at hiding Windows behind sortofa POSIX 
layer. <tongue-in-cheek>It hides it behind a POSIX layer *and* a 
performance hit.</tongue-in-cheek>

I would rather like to see how all the fork()ing and |'ing can be done 
with MinGW32.

Ciao,
Dscho