From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263111AbTD1B0n (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 21:26:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263118AbTD1B0n (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 21:26:43 -0400 Received: from c-51a870d5.037-69-73746f23.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([213.112.168.81]:50358 "EHLO zaphod.guide") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263111AbTD1B0m (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 21:26:42 -0400 To: Mark Grosberg Cc: Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFD] Combined fork-exec syscall. References: From: mru@users.sourceforge.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Date: 28 Apr 2003 03:36:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark Grosberg 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. -- Måns Rullgård mru@users.sf.net