Re: posix_spawn in gcc

2002-06-13 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 05:59:14PM -0700, James Morrison wrote: >I recently went though some discussions about gcc using posix_spawn instead > of fork/exec. I think linux should be the special case instead of GNU being > the special case. so the ifdef would be > # if !defined(HAVE_POSIX_SP

Re: posix_spawn in gcc

2002-06-13 Thread Roland McGrath
I think there was also some sentiment that people would not object to using posix_spawnp on Linux if the generic glibc implementation were made more efficient. The only efficiency that can really be gotten in a generic POSIX.1 implementation over what glibc has now is to avoid using malloc when t