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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories LE
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 14, 2020

Add support for POSIX.1-2001 posix_spawn() and helper functions

Just to avoid any possible confusion, this is not asking for spawn().

The posix_spawn() function and a set of supporting functions provides the user a wrapper around exec/fork and enables them to create child processes with much more control other those processes than spwan() provides.

From what I have seen so far, the posix_spawn() functions are just a wrapper around exec/fork. This RFE can be done just by writting some C code to call existing functionality.

To see a description of the function, see this page: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/posix_spawn.html

Idea priority High