Re: use posix_spawn in pexecute

[Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:03:45PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote
> 
> OTOH, there are platforms on which an efficient implementation of
> fork+exec is hopeless.  AFAIK, Windows is one such platform, and it
> probably is one the platforms with the widest user base of GCC.  So,
> why not accommodate OSs in which using spawn is actually a win?

Windows already has its own version of pexecute() that does use spawn
(not the same spawn as the one Roland's patch used).

zw