Re: [PATCH 0/5] fork/exec removal series

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

Johannes Schindelin schrieb:

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On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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These cases I hope to be able to treat as "coroutine":

- sideband demultiplexer in builtin-fetch-pack.c
- internal rev-list in upload-pack
- the two-way pipe handling in convert.c and builtin-upload-archive.c

There are probably more in daemon.c and imap-send.c.

BTW, the convert.c case (apply_filter) is most interesting for me,
since I have a real-world use-case for a clean-filter.

Calling it coroutine is interesting... But yes, I agree that these
three cases cannot be handled otherwise.

Suggestions for a better name are appreciated!

I think coroutine is commonly used as the name for _synchronous_
context switches aka message passing.  Basically the same as
subroutine calls, except that the called subroutine has its own
dynamic context (instruction pointer, call stack, control flow) that
gets activated and suspended.

If there is parallelism implied, "thread" is the more appropriate
name.

-- 
David Kastrup