future of HgKit

[Mark A. Flacy]

On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 14:32 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:


> Funny how make(1) has no problem with this. Once again I'm forced to
> wonder out loud if Java has a system() call. Perhaps it's
> under-documented.



It does, but it eats a *lot* of memory on startup when run under Solaris
(of all things) due to the way fork() works on that platform.

For others thinking of using pipes to talk from a java process to a
python one, that is very inefficient under Windows.  That's due to
Window's flush() semantics.

-- 
Mark A. Flacy <mflacy at verizon.net>
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