site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On 09 Mar 2008, at 21:37, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Jonas _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... I don't remember the conclusions from last time we discussed this, but was there are reason why posix_spawn(2) was also not under consideration for this? Clearly it's the inheritor of vfork()'s mantle, but there may be a reason why you are unable to use it on MacOSX that I'm forgetting. For production use: backwards compatibility (both regarding posix_spawn itself, and the dynamic linker functionality required to test at run time whether or not it's available). For testing purposes: I simply didn't get around yet to rewriting our "execute process" wrappers to run on top of posix_spawn. I'll post those benchmarks as well once I get around to doing that. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com