Re: scratch/sigchld-fd 8f0ce42 1/2: Fix deadlock when receiving SIGCHLD during 'pselect'.

[Philipp Stephani]

Am Mi., 20. Jan. 2021 um 16:05 Uhr schrieb Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>
> > > The thing is, on Windows we can only wait on up to 64 handles (unless
> > > we complicate the code with multilevel wait, that is), so every
> > > unnecessary descriptor we need to wait on means we can support fewer
> > > simultaneous subprocesses.  We are already limited to just 32
> > > subprocesses, which is quite low a number.
> >
> > OK, that's a good point, I didn't know about this limitation. I'll see
> > that I can remove the pipe on Windows.
>
> Just making those child_signal_* function be no-ops on MS-Windows, and
> #ifedf'ing away that call to FD_SET of child_fd, should be okay, I
> think.

I was about to take a stab at this, but looks like you beat me to it :-)