2 Aug
2021
2 Aug
'21
6:29 a.m.
On Sun, 1 Aug 2021, Dan Cross wrote:
Spawn vs fork/exec is a false dichotomy, though. We
talked about the fork
paper when it came out, and here's what I wrote about it at the time:
https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2019-April/017700.html
I've often wished I could run a free/open Bourne-type shell on 16-bit
MS-DOS and OS/2. Porting to the former is next to impossible because of
the lack of *any* concept of multitasking. Porting to the latter is
difficult because multitasking isn't done anything like the Unix way.
I actually like the spawn* functions better, though I think on Unix
fork/exec is the most natural way to implement them.
-uso.