* Michael McMahon: > webrev location: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~michaelm/5049299/webrev.00/ > > **I'd like to give an outline of the change here, to make reviewing > the webrev a bit easier. Basically, while posix_spawn() is a fairly > elaborate and complicated system call, it can't quite do everything > that the old fork()/exec() combination can do,
I've always assumed that the ProcessBuilder requirements could be fulfilled by posix_spawn and friends. Could you elaborate why this is not the case? The file descriptor setup race mentioned in the comments shouldn't apply, really--the reshuffling should occur in the child, isolated from the parent, otherwise the implementation is quite broken and pointless. -- Florian Weimer <[email protected]> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99
