Comment by ComputerGuru
1 day ago
I'm not surprised Chen's patch was rejected; that's an extremely niche usecase not worth supporting. With my shell developer hat on, I agree with the closing "developers would likely welcome a native implementation that isn't (unlike the current implementation) hiding fork() and exec() under the covers".
It sounds like they're interested in the concept though, just not that specific implementation.
Yeah this seems like a promising discussion.
It has been for decades at this point. thiago's blog posts which introduced me to the topic over a decade ago (and is still one of the best explainers) points out that posix_spawn was introduced in POSIX.1-2001: https://web.archive.org/web/20120718152158/http://www.maciei...
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