Re: ‘guix publish’ now compresses archives

[Andy Wingo]

On Tue 19 Jul 2016 00:22, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> To recap, the difficulty with all this is that we couldn’t just call out
> the ‘gzip’ command because ‘guix publish’ uses threads, and threads and
> fork(2) don’t go together well.

FWIW open-pipe or open-process from (ice-9 popen) should work reliably.
The child is carefully written to be async-signal-safe before the
execve().

Andy