Re: [PATCH] fetch-pack: Prepare for a side-band demultiplexer in a thread.

On Sunday 18 November 2007 01:42, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

	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