Re: [boost] [boost.process] 0.6 Alpha

Subject: Re: [boost] [boost.process] 0.6 Alpha
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-06-20 20:14:55

On 17/06/2016 21:45, Klemens Morgenstern wrote:
>> But on the other hand from a library design point of view, shouldn't the
>> library have the best smart default in terms of performance and overhead
>> on a given platform ? Instead of having a flag telling : please do it
>> the same but efficiently ? Because on linux vfork is nothing but
>> obsoleted and for a scenario of using execve looks better to me.
>
> Again: obsolete and now removed in the posix-standard and that's what I
> ought to go with. Please note, that I'm trying to provide two platforms:
> Posix & Windows. Not Linux & Windows. Thereby I want to provide the most
> common way for both platforms; and though I really appreciate your
> scenario, I would not consider it the common way.

Possibly of interest is that according to the notes vfork+exec (and 
fork+exec, for that matter) was deprecated in favour of posix_spawn. 
Which appears to be less well documented, but does exist in some 
environments at least.