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Re: posix_spawn support in core
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:40:15 +0200
- Subject: Re: posix_spawn support in core
- References: <50804598.6070504@dancol.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
Hi Daniel,
On Oct 18 11:08, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> A while ago, I posted a proof-of-concept implementation of posix_spawn as a user
> library. Would you be receptive to a patch that added posix_spawn support to the
> Cygwin core? posix_spawn is significantly more flexible than spawn, simpler than
> vfork, and for large programs, much faster than fork.
I just realized that I missed to reply. Of course we would like to have
a posix_spawn. However, I'm not sure you can simply put a posix_spawn
over our exec/spawn implementation. This would require a redesign of
the exec/spawn code in the first place, isn't it?
Did you already have a look into the current implementation? I don't
know about your POC implementation and if it's plain Windows or requires
Cygwin.
Last but not least, code contributions require a copyright assignment:
http://cygwin.com/contrib.html
Corinna
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