From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 16:15:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EDF916A4CE; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:15:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (simmts6.bellnexxia.net [206.47.199.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A413143D55; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:15:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vladimir-dozen@sympatico.ca) Received: from sympatico.ca ([67.70.66.134]) by simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net ESMTP <20040707161533.TUHT10364.simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@sympatico.ca>; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:15:33 -0400 Message-ID: <40EC21B5.60509@sympatico.ca> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:15:49 -0400 From: Vladimir Dyuzhev User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040401 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxime Henrion References: <200407062323.02854.kirk@strauser.com> <20040707043251.GA35651@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200407062345.24117.kirk@strauser.com> <20040707070012.GC38356@dragon.nuxi.com> <40EC11EB.4060804@sympatico.ca> <20040707152149.GG82302@elvis.mu.org> <40EC17DC.9020307@sympatico.ca> <20040707153725.GH82302@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20040707153725.GH82302@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 16:15:42 -0000 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 http://dozen.ru