On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 01:35:07PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > If we were to implement POSIX spawn(), we'd need something like this. > > Uh, no. posix_spawn(3) can be implemented entirely in userland and > does not require any special kernel support.
Discussions with peter@ and others on IRC have been ongoing regarding doing it in kernel space, so as to avoid unnecessarily expensive VM fork operations when 'spawning' a process. I'd be interested to hear more about your proposal for doing this in userland. BMS _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
