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From: | Eric Blake |
Subject: | Re: Introduce posix_spawn |
Date: | Fri, 7 Sep 2018 13:59:02 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
On 09/07/2018 09:44 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
Adding gnulib: On 09/06/2018 11:37 PM, Barath Aron wrote:On 9/7/18 4:54 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote:Couldn't you change the w.d. to the correct target, spawn, and then change the w.d. back?Yes, one could do this.
Although it gets prohibitively expensive in a multi-threaded process to ensure proper locking between all threads that might want to use posix_spawn, since fchdir() affects global process state.
In fact, it's so useful that I just proposed that POSIX standardize it, as well as fchdir:Actually, this particular problem can be easily solved on Threos, because the posix_spawn() API offers a function for this: int posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np(posix_spawn_file_actions_t* __restrict file_actions, const char* __restrict path);Note the "np" at the end, it means "non portable". I also found references on Oracle's webpage [1].It's useful enough that we may want to add support for this in gnulib, whether or not other systems pick up on it. (gnulib is already able to overcome a lot of shortcomings in various platforms' posix_spawn)
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1208 -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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