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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

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