RE: posix_spawn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@squid-cache.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 6:58 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: squid-dev@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: posix_spawn
>
>
> On Wednesday 03 April 2002 10:50, Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > > There is no posix_spawn in the SUSv2 copy I have.. are
> you looking
> > > in SUSv3?
> >
> > Whoops, wrong reference.
> >
> > IEEE P1003.1 Draft 6 April 2001.
>
> It also is specified in SUSv3.
>
> In some years it is likely to have widespread official coverage.
> (maybe one year before supported by all vendors, one or two
> additional years before a significant amount of the population has
> upgraded)

Well, I'm about to contribute a cygwin implementation real-soon-now. And
I've just sent in pseudo code to do emulate it with vfork + exec
(assuming we open the majority of fd's with close-on-exec).

So it shouldn't be too hard to use it one way or another :}.

Rob
Received on Wed Apr 03 2002 - 02:12:09 MST