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bug#54667: 29.0.50; posix_spawn breaks emacs-gdb
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Robert Pluim |
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bug#54667: 29.0.50; posix_spawn breaks emacs-gdb |
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Mon, 04 Apr 2022 16:11:51 +0200 |
tags 54667 fixed
close 54667 29.1
quit
>>>>> On Fri, 01 Apr 2022 16:44:13 +0200, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> said:
>>>>> On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 15:29:50 +0200, "Herman, Géza" <geza.herman@gmail.com>
>>>>> said:
Herman> I can confirm that it fixes the problem.
Robert> Thanks, Iʼll see if I can get around to committing it this weekend.
Herman> For reference, here's the patch:
Herman> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-03/msg00067.html
Herman> (Btw., according to this email thread, vfork is faster than
Herman> posix_spawn on Linux, so maybe it'd make sense to use posix_spawn
only
Herman> on non-Linux platforms?)
Robert> In emacs-28 we only use posix_spawn on macOS because its vork is
Robert> sub-optimal. I donʼt remember the rationale for switching to using
it
Robert> everywhere, itʼs undoubtedly in the archives somewhere.
Closing.
Committed as 8103b060d8