On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Eric Wong <normalper...@yhbt.net> wrote: > Lars Hjemli <hje...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Supporting something like FCGI in cgit will require a fork(2) for each >> request, before invoking libgit.a functions, since these functions are >> not generally reentrant (they tend to use global state and/or >> inconveniently die(3)). > > Unfortunately true for now, but libgit.a could evolve (or cgit can use > something like libgit2 instead).
Cgit is unlikely to move to libgit2 in the near future. (Unless someone is willing to do the job and argue for why it's preferred over mainline git, beyond its reentrancy...) I guess, though, libgit.a is likely to never evolve to receive reentrant functions and do away with die() (though the die calls could easily be circumvented by hooking libc's exit...yuck), because libgit2 exists for this reason. I am therefore tempted to follow Lars' suggestion, and merge lf/global-ctx. _______________________________________________ CGit mailing list CGit@lists.zx2c4.com http://lists.zx2c4.com/mailman/listinfo/cgit
