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Re: [PATCH 2/3] posix: Use posix_spawn on popen
It seems to me that there are still reasonable questions about whether
to use posix_spawn or vfork ("posix_spawn is a badly designed API").
For (well over) 30 years, I've understood that vfork was the go-to call
for a fork/exec scenario, so, what is the technical problem with using
it for popen and system? (I'm not asking about vfork's overall
technical merits, I'm asking exclusively about using it for popen and
system.)