Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Feb 26, 2006, 20:18 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602261217080.22647@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060226195552.GA30735@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:

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> If the speed of cygwin's fork is an issue then I'd previously suggested
> using spawn*.  The spawn family of functions were designed to emulate
> Windows functions of the same name.  They start a new process without
> the requirement of forking.

I thought that cygwin didn't implement the posix_spawn*() family?

Anyway, we probably _can_ use posix_spawn() in various places, and especially if that helps windows performance, we should.

		Linus

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