Re: Native posix_spawn() in Cygwin?

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On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 06:54:42AM +0100, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 at 06:47, Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 2024-02-26 20:23, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > > Does Cygwin implement a native, i.e. without form(),exec(), implementation of posix_spawn()?
> >
> > Check the API compatibility docs online:
> >
> >         https://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/compatibility.html#std-susv4
> >
> > or optional locally installed package cygwin-doc:
> >
> >         /usr/share/doc/cygwin-doc/html/cygwin-api/compatibility.html#std-susv4
> 
> That document does not answer my question.
> 
> I know posix_spawn() is there. But the question is: Does it use just
> Cygwin fork(),exec(), or the native Win32 spawn() api?
> 
> Dan
> -- 
> Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd

If you were going to make a small effort to answer the question
yourself, you could use strace, you could step through a debugger, or
you could check the source code.  Have you tried any of these?  What did
you find?  If you are unable to take any of those steps, why does
posix_spawn() matter to you?

Cheers, Glenn