GNU bug report logs - #55441
Use of 'primitive-fork' in (guix inferior) leads to hangs in 'cuirass evaluate'

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 03:50:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #52 received at 55441 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Cc: 55441 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55441: [cuirass] hang in "In progress..."; runs out of
 pgsql connections
Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 11:44:09 +0200

Hi,

Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> skribis:

> Maybe the store connection caching could be optional when calling
> inferior-eval-with-store, and that could also switch between using
> open-pipe* and primitive-fork for starting the inferior process.

I don’t think that’s desirable as an interface.  To me, the proper fix
will be to use an interface like ‘posix_spawn’ so we can have both
correctness and speed, rather than let users choose.

Ludo’.
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