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Re: Extend faq.using to discuss fork failures


On Aug 19 12:31, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.

Yup, the definition of these functions makes me kind of fuzzy.


Corinna

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