On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:02:54PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:52:58 -0500 >> From: Norbert Thiebaud <nthieb...@gmail.com> >> Cc: Pavel Fedin <p.fe...@samsung.com>, bug-make@gnu.org >> >> fork() is a very expensive operation in cygwin. > >Yes, I know. But without it, some things that are expected of a Posix >behavior will not work. A notable example is that the child process >initially has all the file descriptors and global variables that the >parent had. 'spawn' does not necessarily guarantee that.
Thank you Eli. This is my reservation about this change too. I maintain the make package for Cygwin and if I have reservations, you can be sure that it won't make it into the released version. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
