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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-06-21 06:02:45 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-06-21 06:02:45 -0700
commit762655010d6f051f632a77b8c5b95b9f5cad02c9 (patch)
tree8f9b2d9a72a1e1af33eaa26fd94516391f23ad62 /Documentation/technical
parentMerge branch 'gv/portable' (diff)
parentfast-import: die_nicely() back to vsnprintf (reverts part of ebaa79f) (diff)
downloadtgif-762655010d6f051f632a77b8c5b95b9f5cad02c9.tar.xz
Merge branch 'js/async-thread'
* js/async-thread: fast-import: die_nicely() back to vsnprintf (reverts part of ebaa79f) Enable threaded async procedures whenever pthreads is available Dying in an async procedure should only exit the thread, not the process. Reimplement async procedures using pthreads Windows: more pthreads functions Fix signature of fcntl() compatibility dummy Make report() from usage.c public as vreportf() and use it. Modernize t5530-upload-pack-error. Conflicts: http-backend.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
index 44876fa703..f18b4f4817 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
@@ -231,8 +231,9 @@ The function pointer in .proc has the following signature:
There are serious restrictions on what the asynchronous function can do
-because this facility is implemented by a pipe to a forked process on
-UNIX, but by a thread in the same address space on Windows:
+because this facility is implemented by a thread in the same address
+space on most platforms (when pthreads is available), but by a pipe to
+a forked process otherwise:
. It cannot change the program's state (global variables, environment,
etc.) in a way that the caller notices; in other words, .in and .out