On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 03:36:17AM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Mark Grosberg <mark@nolab.conman.org> writes:
...
> > 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.
I agree with Måns completely.
CreateProcess() is *horrible*. It takes 10 arguments, several of them
being pointers to structures. Ugh!
Besides, the CreateProcessAsUser() call (which takes 13 arguments IIRC)
demonstrates why such all-in-one-and-a-kitchen-sink calls are
fundamentally flawed.
In the few cases where they do not demand unnecessary arguments, they
simply lack the functionality that is actually needed.
I would argue that any time spent on replicating such monsters in Linux
would be far better spent optimizing the basic calls
(exec/fork/dup/close/fcntl/...) instead.
That was my 0.02 Euro on that one.
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