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Re: [PATCH1/2] Use spawn() on Cygwin
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [PATCH1/2] Use spawn() on Cygwin |
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Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:02:54 +0300 |
> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:52:58 -0500
> From: Norbert Thiebaud <address@hidden>
> Cc: Pavel Fedin <address@hidden>, address@hidden
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> fork() is a very expensive operation in cygwin.
Yes, I know. But without it, some things that are expected of a Posix
behavior will not work. A notable example is that the child process
initially has all the file descriptors and global variables that the
parent had. 'spawn' does not necessarily guarantee that.