On Aug 20 07:40, Peter Dons Tychsen via Cygwin wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > > spawn alone doesn't cut it, due to the requirement to support the > > additional file actions and spawn atributes POSIX defines. This > > would require a revamp of Cygwin's spawn functionality, which is > > already quite complicated. So this is something I'm only willing > > to do in homeopathic doses. > > OK. I can see that most of the processing of the options are done > seperately. We could to start with create a shortcut that calls > spawn[vpe]() instead if there are no options specified? That would > speed up most cases. Then we could add the extra cases later if needed. > > Would that be an acceptable patch?
No, it won't work as expected, as you can see from the discussion in this thread. Some internal work would be required. > The reason i am pushing for this is that allot of developers i interact > with get the feeling cygwin is slow. Well, Cygwin *is* slow, given the fork/exec implementation. We asked Microsoft a lot if there's any chance to create a fork-alike working in the Windows subsystem, but that ship has sailed. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
