Re: [PATCH] immortal helpers

From: Henrik Nordström <henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:39:04 +0100

mån 2010-02-22 klockan 10:20 +0100 skrev Kinkie:

> Unfortunately it's implementation-dependent. For all we know
> posix_spawn may be a library convenience wrapper around fork/exec..
> (vfork if we're lucky).

Well, it's been around for quite some time now.

If we want to argue about oldish systems then UNIX domain fd passing is
also known to be broken on many older OS:es in various manners.

The question is, is there any system we want to support which lacks
posix_spawn or a similar alternative?

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Feb 23 2010 - 12:39:12 MST

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