> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 22:49:31 -0400 > From: Christopher Faylor <m...@cgf.cx> > > 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.
And, btw, I think there's a thread on the Cygwin list just now about one such problem. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
