optimizing fork/exec in vendor source

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Fri Oct 10 14:09:00 GMT 2008


Jack Andrews wrote on 10 October 2008 14:27:

> eric wrote:
>> No, changing bash to use CreateProcess is not the answer.  The real
>> question is whether someone with copyright assignment is willing to write
>> posix_spawn[p], and write it more efficiently than forking,
> 
> this seems to be an easy problem in cygwin (at least, in comparison to
> fork). and would fix one of the biggest problems with cygwin (or at least
> cygwin bash). who has to hold the copyright?
> 
> ta, jack.


  Copyright has to be assigned to Red Hat, who stand in the same relation to
cygwin in this matter as the FSF does to Gcc, etc.

  See "Before you get started" at http://cygwin.com/contrib.html


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/



More information about the Cygwin mailing list