Re: MinGW patches

2014-02-23 Thread Mark H Weaver
Eli Zaretskii writes: >> We generally rebase before pushing, to keep the git history as linear as >> reasonably possible. > > May I suggest to have this in HACKING, including the (probably > necessary) "pull --rebase" that should go with it? Sure, that makes sense. Would you like to propose a p

Re: [PATCH] Implement open-process and related functions on MinGW

2014-02-23 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Mark H Weaver > Cc: l...@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 23:40:20 -0500 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> It's safe to fork a multithreaded program without using pthread_atfork > >> if only async-signal-safe functions are called before the exec. > > > > You may kno

Re: [PATCH] Implement open-process and related functions on MinGW

2014-02-23 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Mark H Weaver > Cc: l...@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:50:16 -0500 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> Definitions for these on MinGW are available in Gnulib's 'sys_wait' > >> module. I'll import it soon. > > > > Please don't: that gnulib module is dead wrong f

Re: MinGW patches

2014-02-23 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Mark H Weaver > Cc: l...@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 09:21:12 -0500 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> We generally rebase before pushing, to keep the git history as linear as > >> reasonably possible. > > > > May I suggest to have this in HACKING, including the

Re: [PATCH] Implement open-process and related functions on MinGW

2014-02-23 Thread Mark H Weaver
Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Mark H Weaver >> Cc: l...@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org >> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 23:40:20 -0500 >> >> Eli Zaretskii writes: >> >> >> It's safe to fork a multithreaded program without using pthread_atfork >> >> if only async-signal-safe functions are called befo