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Date:      Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:06:00 +0200
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To:        David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.ORG>, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include Makefile spawn.h unistd.h src/lib/libc/gen Makefile.inc Symbol.map exec.3 exec.c posix_spawn.c
Message-ID:  <20080617140600.GE1176@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20080617134828.GA30076@zim.MIT.EDU>
References:  <200806170633.m5H6XMJH084600@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080617134828.GA30076@zim.MIT.EDU>

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* David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> I have no objections to this, but doesn't it defeat the whole
> purpose to implement posix_spawn() as a library function that just
> calls fork/exec?

When (if?) applications start to use posix_spawn() we may decide to move
it into the kernel at any time. It should be okay for now.

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

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