Hi, On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Martin Husemann <mar...@duskware.de> wrote: > Hi folks, > > during this years Summer of Code Charles Zhang and I implemented the > posix_spawn syscall. We are now at a point that, with some further minor > cleanup and debugging, this is ready to commit. The main changes are pretty > local, but to avoid code duplication a few of the existing file operations > had to be modified, and this causes changes literally all over the tree. > > Let's look at it from a userland perspective first: what use is posix_spawn? > Historically the fork/exec model used in unix has been pretty efficient, > and later variants of it (vfork, some call it a hack) have made it even > more efficient. Nowadays, with a lot of multithreaded applications, neither > fits well. So posix_spwawn was invented, and it is realy simple to use. > A minimalistic test program is: > [snip] > > > So, please have a look, all comments welcome.
I can't see any test cases in newfiles.tar.gz. Maybe we should have posix_spawn test cases before import. Is RUMP working/buildable with your changes ? -- Regards. Adam
