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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-07-18 15:30:26 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-07-18 18:00:24 -0400
commitd1da9cf221aeea5c7ac8a313a18b559791a04f12 (patch)
treefe8d7e42efb89441d14ab8d5d71bb8f0f007330b /doc/todo
parentfc5652c811a9a644bb8964b3b8c13df24f2ec7c7 (diff)
switch from System.Cmd.Utils to System.Process
Test suite now passes with -threaded! I traced back all the hangs with -threaded to System.Cmd.Utils. It seems it's just crappy/unsafe/outdated, and should not be used. System.Process seems to be the cool new thing, so converted all the code to use it instead. In the process, --debug stopped printing commands it runs. I may try to bring that back later. Note that even SafeSystem was switched to use System.Process. Since that was a modified version of code from System.Cmd.Utils, it needed to be converted too. I also got rid of nearly all calls to forkProcess, and all calls to executeFile, which I'm also doubtful about working well with -threaded.
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@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ git-annex does not otherwise use threads, so this is surprising. --[[Joey]]
> I've spent a lot of time debugging this, and trying to fix it, in the
> "threaded" branch. There are still deadlocks. --[[Joey]]
+>> Fixed, by switching from `System.Cmd.Utils` to `System.Process`
+>> --[[Joey]]
+
---
It would be possible to not use the threaded runtime. Instead, we could