From: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ‘guix publish’ now compresses archives
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 12:12:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpkf711j.fsf@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878twytwlp.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Tue, 19 Jul 2016 00:22:42 +0200")
On Tue 19 Jul 2016 00:22, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> To recap, the difficulty with all this is that we couldn’t just call out
> the ‘gzip’ command because ‘guix publish’ uses threads, and threads and
> fork(2) don’t go together well.
FWIW open-pipe or open-process from (ice-9 popen) should work reliably.
The child is carefully written to be async-signal-safe before the
execve().
Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-21 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-18 22:22 ‘guix publish’ now compresses archives Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-19 6:29 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-07-19 10:03 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-07-19 13:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-19 13:42 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-07-19 14:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-19 15:50 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-07-20 11:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-20 13:05 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-07-20 13:12 ` Thompson, David
2016-07-20 16:10 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-07-21 5:33 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-21 15:58 ` Thompson, David
2016-07-21 5:53 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-21 20:50 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-07-21 10:12 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2016-07-21 12:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
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