Subject: Re: [PATCH] quickfetch(): Prevent overflow of the rev-list command line

From: Johan Herland <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:43:03 +0200

On Wednesday 08 July 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johan Herland <[email-masked]> writes:
> > Maybe I need to do something to the close() call as well? What happens
> > on close() after EPIPE?
>
> You should be OK (you could try this).
>
> -- >8 --

Thanks! The programs works well on my Linux box (close() succeeds), but it 
does not run at all in Windows/MSYS (lacks pipe() and fork()).

Does anybody with Windows/MSYS experience know how this scenario (write() to 
a terminated process, followed by close()) would play out in msysGit?

...Johan

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