Re: posix_spawn

[Igor Khavkine]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 05:53:52AM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> It has been noted that the slowness of fork on the Hurd may be a
> substantial factor in uses like large builds.  One way to avoid this
> problem is to avoid fork.  In glibc we have <spawn.h> providing posix_spawn
> and related functions; most common cases where a program uses fork and exec
> directly can be replaced by calls to posix_spawn et al.

Just out of curiosity, is posix_spawn a standard interface? And
is it reasonable for programs to expect to have it available
on a system that say, doesn't use glibc?

Igor