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RE: Replacing fork/exec with spawn question


>In particular, the code I'm looking to patch does a typical fork/exec and uses 2 pipes to communicate bi-directionally parent to child. The
>pipes are throwing me off as to if cygwin spawn is usable.

I had no problems using fork/exec on Cygwin, even though it is mentioned to be inefficient in the documentation.  If the spawn rate
of your child processes is not high, it should work just well...

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