On 1/3/2012 4:20 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> but it sounds interesting (especially if it allows less-frequent >> invocation of the rebaseall ritual). > > Since the VAST majority of UNIX/linux programs use fork/exec I don't > see how this would really have much of an effect.
The idea is to add upstream support for posix_spawn when it would be useful. Because posix_spawn is a standardized facility, because other systems usefully implement it too, and because posix_spawn can be implemented in terms of fork for systems that lack posix_spawn (with gnulib providing such an implementation), adding this support might be easier than adding explicit support for Cygwin's spawn. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
