Adding gnulib:
On 09/06/2018 11:37 PM, Barath Aron wrote:
On 9/7/18 4:54 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
Couldn't you change the w.d. to the correct target, spawn, and then
change the w.d. back?
Yes, one could do this.
Alternatively, one could direct the spawned process to run a program
that would
On 09/07/2018 09:44 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
Adding gnulib:
On 09/06/2018 11:37 PM, Barath Aron wrote:
On 9/7/18 4:54 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
Couldn't you change the w.d. to the correct target, spawn, and then
change the w.d. back?
Yes, one could do this.
Although it gets prohibitively expen
On 9/7/18 8:59 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 09/07/2018 09:44 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
Adding gnulib:
On 09/06/2018 11:37 PM, Barath Aron wrote:
On 9/7/18 4:54 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
Couldn't you change the w.d. to the correct target, spawn, and then
change the w.d. back?
Yes, one could do thi
On 09/07/2018 02:17 PM, Barath Aron wrote:
In fact, it's so useful that I just proposed that POSIX standardize
it, as well as fchdir:
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1208
Good to hear, I'm looking forward to this.
It seems you have a typo in it:
> int posix_spawn_file_actions_addch
Eric Blake wrote:
> > Actually, this particular problem can be easily solved on Threos,
> > because the posix_spawn() API offers a function for this:
> > int posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np(posix_spawn_file_actions_t*
> > __restrict file_actions, const char* __restrict path);
> >
> > Note t
Eric Blake wrote:
> Although it gets prohibitively expensive in a multi-threaded process to
> ensure proper locking between all threads that might want to use
> posix_spawn
Why locking? posix_spawn uses fork() - the vfork() optimization is not
possible in the case when there are file actions -,
On 09/07/2018 05:06 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
Although it gets prohibitively expensive in a multi-threaded process to
ensure proper locking between all threads that might want to use
posix_spawn
Why locking? posix_spawn uses fork() - the vfork() optimization is not
possible in
On 09/07/2018 04:53 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Implemented as follows. The prototype is as in [3], except that I dropped
the suffix '_np', because
- Functions with suffix '_np' are in the system's namespace, that is,
there is no requirement that different systems implement them with the
Eric Blake wrote:
> http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1208
>
> There, I argue that we also need posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir(),
> in part because it lets us get the same power as openat() in determining
> how relative file names are resolved in relation to an fd.
The use-case is, AFA
