X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-IronPortListener: Outbound_SMTP X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjgJABZ2slCcKEen/2dsb2JhbABEwEAWbAeCHwEBBBIoTwIBCA0VFBAfEyUCBBsah2uhN5tjkBdhA401jlmKN4Jvgh0 From: "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]" To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" Subject: RE: Replacing fork/exec with spawn question Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:51:04 +0000 Message-ID: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D016A50@MLBXv04.nih.gov> References: <5561519E-4216-47A7-A020-EF2EA8E45A56 AT cloudwerx DOT com> In-Reply-To: <5561519E-4216-47A7-A020-EF2EA8E45A56@cloudwerx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id qAPJpF9k024565 >In particular, the code I'm looking to patch does a typical fork/exec and uses 2 pipes to communicate bi-directionally parent to child. The >pipes are throwing me off as to if cygwin spawn is usable. I had no problems using fork/exec on Cygwin, even though it is mentioned to be inefficient in the documentation. If the spawn rate of your child processes is not high, it should work just well... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple