Re: posix_spawn in gcc

[Jeff Bailey]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 05:59:14PM -0700, James Morrison wrote:

>    I recently went though some discussions about gcc using posix_spawn instead
> of fork/exec.  I think linux should be the special case instead of GNU being
> the special case.  so the ifdef would be
>  # if !defined(HAVE_POSIX_SPAWNP) || defined(__linux__)

> Is there a better way to handle this exception?

Implement posix_spawn in libiberty, and use it unconditionally.  Using
defines like this should be unecessary.

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