Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:

If the speed of cygwin's fork is an issue then I'd previously suggested
using spawn*.  The spawn family of functions were designed to emulate
Windows functions of the same name.  They start a new process without
the requirement of forking.

I thought that cygwin didn't implement the posix_spawn*() family?

Anyway, we probably _can_ use posix_spawn() in various places, and 
especially if that helps windows performance, we should.

		Linus