On 09/08/2018 02:24 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 09/08/18 00:15, Eric Blake wrote:
Adding posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir() is what avoids the need to
lock in the parent, because now you do:
A thought WRT the naming: while ..._addopen() can be called for more file
descriptors, there's only
On 09/08/18 00:15, Eric Blake wrote:
> Adding posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir() is what avoids the need to
> lock in the parent, because now you do:
A thought WRT the naming: while ..._addopen() can be called for more file
descriptors, there's only one working directory for the spawned process.
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
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 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
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 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
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
