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> From: Bruno Haible <haible AT ilog DOT fr>
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:48:39 +0200 (CEST)
> 
> A propos portability of gettext to DJGPP:
> 
> gettext-0.11 will include a few new programs that need to spawn
> subprocesses. It uses the new POSIX posix_spawnp family of functions,
> which is explicitly designed with non-Unix platforms in mind (i.e. it
> can be implemented more efficiently than fork+exec on some systems).

Thanks for the heads-up.  Do you have any tentative schedule for
gettext-0.11 release?

> I hope this code will be usable without modifications in DJGPP. If you
> don't have the spec of posix_spawnp and friends, I can send you that
> spec.

We have the spec, thanks.