Re: [PATCH] (Updated) Exec git programs without using PATH.
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> Not being entirely knowledgeable on what spawn() actually does and how
> its semantics differ from fork() and exec*() style API's (Google was
> depressingly unhelpful and wikipedia dredged up froglings...), I've got
> a decent "clone-lots-of-processes-and-multiplex-between-them" kind of
> library lying around. Would it be of any use?
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> From the prototypes I've seen on spawn it doesn't seem to be much more
> than a fork() + execve(), either closing or dup2'ing all the
> file-descriptors, so I don't understand why that couldn't be implemented
> for git. Some pointers, anyone?
>
RTFM(posix_spawn)...
-hpa