On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 11:16:44AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> 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.
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