Message222570
Our project (the Solaris packaging system, IPS), relies on posix_spawn() primarily for the ability to fork without making a large memory reservation (and possibly failing) because the forking process was itself very large. That's the (a?) bug benefit of posix_spawn() -- it's not a benefit for the programmer using it (who might have to fall back to fork/exec), but for the end-user that benefits from its streamlined operation.
You're right that it doesn't handle everything that subprocess.Popen() does -- though at least on Solaris there's a way to change the cwd in the file actions, and I'm sure we'd consider adding a way to do the setsid() as well. The rest should be possible cross-platform. |
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2014-07-08 17:23:56 | dhduvall | set | recipients:
+ dhduvall, gregory.p.smith, benjamin.peterson, alex, neologix, gennad |
2014-07-08 17:23:56 | dhduvall | set | messageid: <1404840236.74.0.304096857292.issue20104@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2014-07-08 17:23:56 | dhduvall | link | issue20104 messages |
2014-07-08 17:23:56 | dhduvall | create | |
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