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split up process.c [was: Re: Changes in process.c]


From: Dan Nicolaescu
Subject: split up process.c [was: Re: Changes in process.c]
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:52:39 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> People who make changes in process.c related to keyboard input and
> wait_reading_process_output, please remember that there are two
> branches in process.c, one for systems that support async
> subprocesses, the other for those which don't (only MS-DOS in the
> latter class).  Making changes only in one of them is going to break
> something.

This points to the ugliness of the situation.

Why don't we split the part for supporting MS-DOS into a different
file: process-no-subprocesses.c (or some better name)

That makes the file easier to read, less clunky, and problems easier
to catch with a simple grep.






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