Re: [PATCH] Use spawn() in GNU Make on Cygwin, updated

[Ray Donnelly]

Did you actually try your patch in a production environment? It breaks
make -jN, so any efficiency gains are negated by that fact. We tried
it in MSYS2 and had to remove it.

"because they already own the computing world"

... riiiight.

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Pavel Fedin <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I really consider the use of Cygwin's spawn() deprecated and I'm not
>> really interested in spending time on it.
>
>  Why ? It is a way to significantly increase performance. And, before Cygwin
> has posix_spawn(), it is the only way to do it.
>  I was following various fork() discussions, Microsoft is not interested in
> solving this because they say absolutely the same phrase about POSIX and all
> that. And, in fact, their phrase weights much more, because they already own
> the computing world.
>
> Kind regards,
> Pavel Fedin
> Expert Engineer
> Samsung Electronics Research center Russia
>
>
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