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[bug #63070] posix_spawn fails to run a child process.


From: Martin Dorey
Subject: [bug #63070] posix_spawn fails to run a child process.
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 21:11:42 -0400 (EDT)

Follow-up Comment #12, bug #63070 (project make):

Ah, so the cause was as noted in
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57022#comment5:

> I leaked a copy of the filename because I'm really a C++ programmer, whose
string literals are const.

Thanks for sorting it out, Dmitry, and sorry for the considerable trouble. 
Who'd have thought we'd have leak detection before const-correctness?  Well,
with hindsight, it's obvious that posix_spawn's prototype can't change, while
tool support can move as fast as it likes.


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