On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 at 07:34, <gs-cygwin....@gluelogic.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 06:54:42AM +0100, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 at 06:47, Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > On 2024-02-26 20:23, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: > > > > Does Cygwin implement a native, i.e. without form(),exec(), > > > > implementation of posix_spawn()? > > > > > > Check the API compatibility docs online: > > > > > > https://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/compatibility.html#std-susv4 > > > > > > or optional locally installed package cygwin-doc: > > > > > > > > > /usr/share/doc/cygwin-doc/html/cygwin-api/compatibility.html#std-susv4 > > > > That document does not answer my question. > > > > I know posix_spawn() is there. But the question is: Does it use just > > Cygwin fork(),exec(), or the native Win32 spawn() api? > > > > Dan > > -- > > Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd > > If you were going to make a small effort to answer the question > yourself, you could use strace, you could step through a debugger, or > you could check the source code. Have you tried any of these? What did > you find? If you are unable to take any of those steps, why does > posix_spawn() matter to you?
strace does not help, as I need the Win32 calls BELOW posix_spawn(), to see the implementation details. Dan -- Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd -- 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
