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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 01:21:16 -0700
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On 4/19/2025 1:42 PM, Camm Maguire via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> posix_spawn is returning non-zero without setting errno:
> 
>    massert(!posix_spawnp(&pid, *p1, &file_actions, &attr,  (void *)p1, environ));
> 
> Is this intended to be supported?  Is it known to be working or not
> working elsewhere?

This kind of question should be sent to the main Cygwin mailing list 
cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, now CC'd.  Please follow up there if necessary.

On failure, posix_spawnp() returns the error number rather than setting 
errno.  This is a convention followed by some number of the posix_*() 
functions; which ones is a question for readers of the POSIX standard ;-).

..mark

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