On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 12:34:35PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > I see we define NO_POSIX_GOODIES on Windows/MinGW, so those don't > demonize "gc", but then I'm confused by this which seems to imply the > opposite: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/29901
I don't think it implies that. The last comment starts with "Code calls git fetch periodically". I presume that it does so in the background (to prevent blocking the UI until 'git fetch' runs), therefore 'git gc --auto' starts already in the background. Furthermore, notice that 'git prune' on that screenshot has two 'git.exe' parents: I think its parent is 'git gc --auto' and its grandparent is 'git fetch'. Now, if that 'git gc --auto' were to go to the background as a result of our daemonize(), then the grandparent 'git fetch' would have very likely exited already.
