[RFC] posix: Make system, popen, and wordexp try pidfd_spawn first (BZ 34001)
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Mon May 4 13:49:43 GMT 2026
* Adhemerval Zanella:
> This patch updates system, popen, and wordexp to use a new internal
> process management abstraction (__spawn_process_create, __spawn_process_wait,
> and __spawn_process_kill) that leverages pidfd_spawn on supported Linux
> kernels before falling back to traditional posix_spawn.
How does this change the way SIGCHLD is delivered?
Thanks,
Florian
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