Re: Subversion 0.19.1 released.

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

>Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
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>>On Windows, we can't fork; the solution is to make the server
>>threded and to spin off worker threads. I haven't -- er, that is,
>>nobody has had time to do that yet.
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>Wow... so apr_proc_fork() does nothing on win32?
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Oh, no. There *is* no apr_proc_fork on Win32 -- it's not even declared.
That's why we have APR_HAD_FORK.

>Perhaps we should file a task to rewrite svnserve to use apr_thread_*
>calls instead...?
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Not "instead", "in addition to". On Unix, you'll typically want to fork,
depending on platform. On Windows, threading is your only option.

And to make things more interesting, nobody knows if our libraries are
really thread-safe. I'm looking forward to this with guh-rrreat
anticipation.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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