On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:44:58PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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>On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> The only thing that would speed up process creation in cygwin now is
>> the use of the windows spawn* family of function calls.  Those could be
>> used instead of fork/exec but I have a personal aversion to using them
>> since they are so non-UNIX.  If performance is an issue, however, that
>> could be something to investigate.
>
>What about posix_spawn()? I don't know the windows spawn things, but I 
>assume posix_spawn() is basically trying to be them.. Does it work with 
>cygwin if we try to convert some of the more obvious users?

You know, I couldn't remember what the name of the spawn that was
introduced for posix.  I was going to mention it in my email and I
forgot.  Obviously it was because the name so obscure that no one could
possibly remember it.  :-)

We don't emulate posix_spawn currently but we could and should.  I'll
put it on the todo list.

cgf
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