Comment by cryptonector
4 years ago
To be fair, posix_spawn() is extensible. New attributes, etc. can be added. And there are a number of extensions for it, too. Illumos has some.
4 years ago
To be fair, posix_spawn() is extensible. New attributes, etc. can be added. And there are a number of extensions for it, too. Illumos has some.
Most APIs can be extended. The problem is that when someone adds a new tunable parameter or resource that one might want to modify for a child process it doesn't automatically get added to posix_spawn()—that takes extra effort. Which is why I emphasized using the same APIs for the current process and child processes, rather than duplicating the work in two places.