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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cygwin-latest: compile errors related to sockaddr_storage, dirent->d_type and dirent->d_ino
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:44:58 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601191334390.3240@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060119212856.GA6317@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>



On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> The only thing that would speed up process creation in cygwin now is
> the use of the windows spawn* family of function calls.  Those could be
> used instead of fork/exec but I have a personal aversion to using them
> since they are so non-UNIX.  If performance is an issue, however, that
> could be something to investigate.

What about posix_spawn()? I don't know the windows spawn things, but I 
assume posix_spawn() is basically trying to be them.. Does it work with 
cygwin if we try to convert some of the more obvious users?

Some of the git users should be easy to convert to posix_spawn()..

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-19 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-18 13:47 cygwin-latest: compile errors related to sockaddr_storage, dirent->d_type and dirent->d_ino Alex Riesen
2006-01-19  5:29 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-19  8:59   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-19 16:10     ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-19 20:34       ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-19 21:16         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-19 21:28           ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-19 21:44             ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-01-19 21:51               ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-20  1:13     ` [PATCH] fsck-objects: support platforms without d_ino in struct dirent Junio C Hamano
2006-01-20  3:38       ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-19 10:42   ` cygwin-latest: compile errors related to sockaddr_storage, dirent->d_type and dirent->d_ino Alex Riesen
2006-01-19 18:31     ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-19 22:08       ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-19 22:51         ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-19 12:51 ` Petr Baudis
2006-01-19 15:04   ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-19 13:00 ` Petr Baudis
2006-01-19 15:07   ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-20  1:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-20 13:23   ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-20  1:13 ` [PATCH] DT_UNKNOWN: do not fully trust existence of DT_UNKNOWN Junio C Hamano
2006-01-20 15:01   ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-20 19:10     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-20 21:53       ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-21  8:09         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-23 13:07           ` Alex Riesen

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