Alan Coopersmith wrote: > 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
Ouch... sometimes it helps to read the changelogs... ;-/ ... however I checked it via "dbx" and it seems that at leaszt ast.ksh-2006-09-12 uses |vfork()| when executing an external command (like /usr/bin/ls) ... ;-( ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
