On 04/11, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

Brandon Williams wrote:
Jonathan Tan had an idea about how to side-step the issue: what if
"grep" forks an appropriate set of child processes before creating any
threads and then communicates with those children using pipes?
Because no threads have been spawned yet in the children, the child
processes can use ordinary run_command.  When run_command finishes,
the child is still available to launch another command using
run_command.

While that would be one way to solve the issue, I think that doing that
would require more work refactoring and make grep's code path more
complex than making the adjustments in run-command itself.

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Brandon Williams