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

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Avery Pennarun wrote:

On 7/23/08, Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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. :-(

I have worked around such problems in the past by having a thread whose 
job it is to read from the pipe and simply write it to a socket. The 
trick works for "console" objects, too, which in win32 are even less 
agreeable than pipes.

(In case your life wasn't disgusting enough already today :))

Thanks.  I thought the code I looked at today was ugly, but you convinced 
me that there is no limit.

Alternatively, you could use something like socketpair() instead of a 
pipe for this purpose.  Naturally, Win32 helps you out here by somehow 
forgetting to include socketpair() in winsock, although it's sort of 
easy to emulate.

Or alternatively, you could read my response to Hannes where I explain 
that the pipe() is not even needed with threaded start_async() (as opposed 
to fork()ed one).

Ciao,
Dscho