From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:38:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (Updated) Exec git programs without using PATH.
Message-ID: <43C5EB5F.6000402@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <43C59EC6.6070905@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
>  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