Re: [PATCH v2] git daemon: avoid waking up too often

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:

Johannes Schindelin schrieb:

quoted

To avoid waking up unnecessarily, a pipe is set up that is only ever
written to by child_handler(), when a child disconnects, as suggested
per Junio.

This avoids waking up the main process every second to see if a child
was disconnected.

This makes porting this beast to Windows practically impossible because we
cannot have a poll() implementation that waits both on a listening socket
and a pipe. :-(

Umm.  We also do not have signal handlers, do we?  AFAICT you wanted to 
simulate _this_ program's fork() with a start_async(), right?  All you 
have to do is to refactor the code with the pipe to do the update 
(properly guarded by a mutex, which is called "CriticalSection" in Windows 
speak, since it is impossible for Microsoft to accept common conventions).

The biggest part to get this beast running on Windows is to move it to the 
start_async() method, not above-mentioned refactoring.

Ciao,
Dscho