From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6 Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:18:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <81b0412b0602220835p4c4243edm145ee827eb706121@mail.gmail.com> <81b0412b0602230000t58a88af6na1aa7e323dc0179d@mail.gmail.com> <7vwtfmihts.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <81b0412b0602230135w472aa6f3v72980f6f63bb355f@mail.gmail.com> <81b0412b0602230141g46dbfaev6baa5083dee2d42@mail.gmail.com> <43FD84EB.3040704@op5.se> <81b0412b0602230210r3ffe6e2dta5dc86d6516692b9@mail.gmail.com> <43FDB8CC.5000503@op5.se> <81b0412b0602230607n22146a77k36929f0ad9e44d53@mail.gmail.com> <20060226195552.GA30735@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 26 21:18:34 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FDSLd-0000rH-8a for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:18:29 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750823AbWBZUS1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:18:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750949AbWBZUS0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:18:26 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:60075 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750823AbWBZUS0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:18:26 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1QKIODZ010421 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:18:24 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k1QKIJXo023031; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:18:22 -0800 To: Christopher Faylor In-Reply-To: <20060226195552.GA30735@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3 required=5 tests=PATCH_SUBJECT_OSDL X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.68__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.129 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > If the speed of cygwin's fork is an issue then I'd previously suggested > using spawn*. The spawn family of functions were designed to emulate > Windows functions of the same name. They start a new process without > the requirement of forking. I thought that cygwin didn't implement the posix_spawn*() family? Anyway, we probably _can_ use posix_spawn() in various places, and especially if that helps windows performance, we should. Linus