[ksh93-integration-discuss] Shouldksh93/libshelluse|posix_spawn()| instead of |vfork()| ?

David Korn dgk at research.att.com
Mon Oct 30 07:54:07 PST 2006


Subject: Re: Re: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss]  Shouldksh93/libshelluse|posix_spawn()| instead of |vfork()| ?
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> Didn't Roland say he's working on a thread safe version of libshell?


When that happens, the feature test for using vfork() would have
to change.  However, the result might be that using threads
decreases performance on some systems in which case threads
would be disabled on those systems by default.

David Korn
dgk at research.att.com



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