On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:26:32AM +1100, Jack Andrews wrote: >eric wrote: >>No, changing bash to use CreateProcess is not the answer. The real >>question is whether someone with copyright assignment is willing to >>write posix_spawn[p], and write it more efficiently than forking, > >this seems to be an easy problem in cygwin (at least, in comparison to >fork). and would fix one of the biggest problems with cygwin (or at >least cygwin bash). who has to hold the copyright?
It is not an "easy problem" and there are no guarantees that it would fix anything. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
