Re: [PATCH1/2] Use spawn() on Cygwin

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:02:54PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:52:58 -0500
>> From: Norbert Thiebaud <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Pavel Fedin <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>> 
>> fork() is a very expensive operation in cygwin.
>
>Yes, I know.  But without it, some things that are expected of a Posix
>behavior will not work.  A notable example is that the child process
>initially has all the file descriptors and global variables that the
>parent had.  'spawn' does not necessarily guarantee that.

Thank you Eli.  This is my reservation about this change too.  I
maintain the make package for Cygwin and if I have reservations, you can
be sure that it won't make it into the released version.