Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: Add spawn family of functions to docs

2025-02-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 16 13:46, Mark Geisert wrote: > In the doc tree, change the title of section "Other UNIX system > interfaces..." to "Other system interfaces...". Add the spawn family of > functions noting their origin as Windows. > > The title change seems warranted as neither the spawn family of > functi

Re: WinAPI spawn() not used by Cygwin posix_spawn()? Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: Add spawn family of functions to docs

2025-02-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 16 23:33, Lionel Cons via Cygwin wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 at 22:47, Mark Geisert wrote: > > > > In the doc tree, change the title of section "Other UNIX system > > interfaces..." to "Other system interfaces...". Add the spawn family of > > functions noting their origin as Windows. > >

Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: Add spawn family of functions to docs

2025-02-17 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2025-02-17 03:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 16 13:46, Mark Geisert wrote: In the doc tree, change the title of section "Other UNIX system interfaces..." to "Other system interfaces...". Add the spawn family of functions noting their origin as Windows. The title change seems warranted a

Re: WinAPI spawn() not used by Cygwin posix_spawn()? Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: Add spawn family of functions to docs

2025-02-17 Thread Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-patches
On Mon, 17 Feb 2025, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > The requirements of posix_spawn and their helper functions are so > that we can't easily fulfill them without doing the fork/exec > twist. > > See https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/posix_spawn.3.html. > Windows CreateProcess() is not quite the sam

Re: WinAPI spawn() not used by Cygwin posix_spawn()? Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: Add spawn family of functions to docs

2025-02-17 Thread Lionel Cons
On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 at 11:08, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > On Feb 16 23:33, Lionel Cons via Cygwin wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 at 22:47, Mark Geisert wrote: > > > > > > In the doc tree, change the title of section "Other UNIX system > > > interfaces..." to "Other system interfaces...