Roland Mainz wrote: > ... which raises the question whether ksh93 should (or could) use > |posix_spawn()| instead of |vfork()|
I had the same thought a couple of weeks ago, but then I plugged "posix_spawn ksh93" into a google search and one of the top hits was: package changes from 2002-12-21 to 2003-04-22 ... ksh93 was modified to accept :% as equivalent to % and :# as equivalent to ... comp/spawnveg.c: call posix_spawn() if implemented comp/omitted.c: add ... www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/release.2003-04-22.2002-12-21.html -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering