cc: olga.kryzhanov...@gmail.com iszczesn...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Re: [ast-developers] posix_spawn not used on Linux? --------
> This is interesting. I thought both Linux and Solaris use > posix_spawn() to avoid the much more expensive vfork()/exec(). > > Irek > ksh93 should use spawnveg() rather than fork/exec on systems for which vfork() is not fork(). spawnveg() uses either posix_spawn() or vfork(). On what system do you see the shell use fork() for simple commands? David Korn d...@research.att.com _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list ast-developers@research.att.com https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
