Re: [RFD] Combined fork-exec syscall.

Måns Rullgård (mru@users.sourceforge.net)
28 Apr 2003 03:36:17 +0200


Mark Grosberg <mark@nolab.conman.org> writes:

> > If you do this, _please_ make it compat with NT.
>
> Actually, I thought about this. My first thought is this could benefit
> WINE running on Linux. Then (not like I'm a Wine expert by any means) I
> figured it might be an issue as far as having to do some preliminary
> wineserver setup work (if anybody on this list knows better than me, speak
> up!)
>
> But yeah, basically, something similar to NT's CreateProcess(). For the
> cases where the one-step process creation is sufficient.

Is that the call that takes dozens of parameters? Copying :-) that
is, IMHO, straight against the UNIX philosophy.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@users.sf.net
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