[Scons-dev] Subprocess issue on Linux?

[Dirk Bächle]

On 05.04.2014 00:17, Kenny, Jason L wrote:

>

> I think yes, in that it does what should be done by the system under 

> posix_spawn.. ie call vfork and execve.

>

> Here is the last version of the monkey patch I have from the people 

> working on it. It has a fallback to the classic fork exec if the API's 

> don't exists. It seems to solve the main speed problem for us at the 

> moment. I believe it still being tested to find possible issues.

>


So, we could add this as an alternative SPAWN function under Linux, 
right? We don't have to make this the default, a user could activate it 
by an "experimental" command-line option for a start.

Dirk

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