On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > If the speed of cygwin's fork is an issue then I'd previously suggested > using spawn*. The spawn family of functions were designed to emulate > Windows functions of the same name. They start a new process without > the requirement of forking. I thought that cygwin didn't implement the posix_spawn*() family? Anyway, we probably _can_ use posix_spawn() in various places, and especially if that helps windows performance, we should. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html