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Re: Extend faq.using to discuss fork failures


On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 06:28:06PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 19 12:15, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:11:42PM -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> >On 19/08/2011 11:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >> (*) http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/posix_spawn.html
>> >That would be ideal, other than the SHTDI part...
>> 
>> I actually told Linus Torvalds that I'd do it a few years ago.  So
>> I'm sorta on the hook, I guess.
>
>Now, *that's* why he wrote Linux.  He was disappointed by the missing
>posix_spawn functionality...

Maybe but, this was in the git context.  Someone was being mean to me on
the git list, before I stopped following it, and the idea of using
posix_spawn for speed came up.  The assumption was that posix_spawn
would be faster than fork on Cygwin.  But, if you look at all of the
things that these functions do, it is not, IMO, a foregone conclusion.

cgf


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