Re: cygwin-latest: compile errors related to sockaddr_storage, dirent->d_type and dirent->d_ino

From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date: Jan 19, 2006, 21:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20060119215146.GC5090@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601191334390.3240@g5.osdl.org>

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:
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>> 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.
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>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