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

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Jan 19, 2006, 21:44 UTC
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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.

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?

Some of the git users should be easy to convert to posix_spawn()..
		Linus
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Message 8 of 27 in “cygwin-latest: compile errors related to sockaddr_storage, dirent->d_type and dirent->d_ino”
  1. Alex RiesenJan 18, 2006
  2. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2006
  4. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  5. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsJan 19, 2006
  7. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  8. Linus TorvaldsJan 19, 2006
  9. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  10. fsck-objects: support platforms without d_ino in struct dirent.Junio C Hamano, Jan 20, 2006
  11. Christopher FaylorJan 20, 2006
  12. Alex RiesenJan 19, 2006
  13. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  14. Alex RiesenJan 19, 2006
  15. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  16. Petr BaudisJan 19, 2006
  17. Alex RiesenJan 19, 2006
  18. Petr BaudisJan 19, 2006
  19. Alex RiesenJan 19, 2006
  20. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2006
  21. Alex RiesenJan 20, 2006
  22. DT_UNKNOWN: do not fully trust existence of DT_UNKNOWNJunio C Hamano, Jan 20, 2006
  23. Alex RiesenJan 20, 2006
  24. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2006
  25. Alex RiesenJan 20, 2006
  26. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2006
  27. Alex RiesenJan 23, 2006

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