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From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] portage, openpty and interix
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:39:29
Message-Id: 1256305178.4565.18.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] portage, openpty and interix by Fabian Groffen
1 On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:30 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 23-10-2009 14:28:17 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
3 > > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:14 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
4 > > > On 23-10-2009 11:00:14 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
5 > > > > On 23-10-2009 10:15:11 +0200, Markus Duft wrote:
6 > > > > > it seems that the code using os.pipe() seems either broken or the
7 > > > > > interix implementation of that python code is broken... whichever it is
8 > > > > > - it's bad ... :(
9 > > > > >
10 > > > > > Could you (grobian), please add "Interix" to the existing white list for
11 > > > > > openpty platforms?
12 > > > >
13 > > > > geez... Interix really sucks. Anyway, if you add it to 701, does it
14 > > > > work then, or does it hang in that case?
15 > > >
16 > > > hmm that check in portage looks totally broken to me, and makes
17 > > > sparc/solaris hang too...
18 > >
19 > > Which area is this as I've noticed FreeMiNT's emerging process takes
20 > > much longer at the moment.
21 >
22 > usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py
23 >
24 > look for openpty
25 >
26 > there is a bit of code to test whether this can work or not also
27 > involving python 3.1
28
29 O.k. I'll take a look.
30
31 > I also feel everything got slower
32
33 It has, most definitely. On slower platforms this can be painful, but
34 before it was actually quite snappy.
35
36 Alan.

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