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Re: [PATCH] Use cygwin spawn functions


On 12/10/2010 01:41, Richard Henderson wrote:
> Emulating fork(2) on cygwin is a bit of a challenge; the hoop jumping is
> a regular circus act.  Worse, fork has a habit of failing on Windows 7 64-bit,
> as seen in the many "Bad address" and "Resource temporarily unavailable"
> errors during testing
> (e.g. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2010-10/msg00624.html).
> 
> Cygwin's own faq (sec 5.5) says that it's better to avoid using fork+exec
> when possible and use the spawn family of calls instead.

  It's a ton less overhead too, hopefully this will show up in faster test
runs; thanks for that.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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