Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C
Vladimir Dyuzhev
vladimir-dozen at sympatico.ca
Wed Jul 7 09:15:42 PDT 2004
ehlo.
> Please go take a look at the CVSup webpage and click on the "Why is
> CVSup so fast?" link. CVSup is far more than a "downloader" and the
> way it is designed makes it inherently multi-threaded. It's of course
> theoritically possible to write it single-threaded but it would be a
> real nightmare, and it would also be rather stupid IMO.
I like threads by myself. But looking on the description what that
threads in CVSup do, I think it could be easely achieved with fork
or finite state machine. I do not going to insist on it, though.
Looking forward to see the csup in the *base* distribution.
dozen
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