astksh review (was Re: Pending package status (09 May 2003))

[Karsten Fleischer]

> I did a lot of work with Glenn on fixing the spawn feature.  Try
> enabling it and see what happens.  I am using it without problems,
> and I don't think I have any local Cygwin patches related to it.

Glenn said that you made cygwin fixes that enable _lib_vfork in
$INSTALLROOT/include/ast/ast_lib.h.
I have only _real_vfork enabled.
Have these fixes not yet made their way into cygwin?

However, I have both _lib_spawnveg and _use_spawnveg, so SHOPT_SPAWN is
used for sh/xec.c even if it has not been explicitely defined before.

So, yes, I'm building ksh with spawn support and it works fine.

Karsten