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Allowing small allocations to fail

Allowing small allocations to fail

Posted Mar 17, 2015 18:54 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Allowing small allocations to fail by epa
Parent article: Allowing small allocations to fail

posix_spawn() is insanely complex, hard to use, very *rarely* used and has as a result had serious bugs in the past. It's best avoided unless you expect your program to be useful on a box without an MMU.

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Allowing small allocations to fail

Posted Mar 18, 2015 9:58 UTC (Wed) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]

> It's best avoided unless you expect your program to be useful on a box without an MMU.

Isn't it also useful if you expect your program to be ported to operating systems without fork()/exec() (Windows) or operating systems where the GUI libraries don't like fork() (from what I've heard, this is the case on Mac)?


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