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According to Jack Andrews on 10/10/2008 7:50 PM:
> i'm naive when it comes to cygwin internals, but the obvious
> similarity of posix_spawn to CreateProcess is seductive.  can you give
> me an example of one of the difficulties of implementing posix_spawn
> in cygwin so i don't bother the list anymore?

Exactly how do you propose to implement posix_spawnattr_setsigdefault
without understanding cygwin internals, and given the fact that native
Windows API is woefully lacking in sigset_t coding?  Think about it -
since cygwin provides the illusion of more signals than Windows, and POSIX
requires the child process created by posix_spawn to change its signal
mask according to the POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGDEF flag, that means that you must
create the child process in such a way that it knows the right set of
cygwin signal masks it is inheriting.  If cgf says it's hard (and he's the
one that maintains signal and fork code), it's probably hard.

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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