Re: [PATCH 0/1] MR4468: ntdll: Use posix_spawn() to start the server.

[Brendan Shanks (＠bshanks)]

On Tue Nov 28 23:08:57 2023 +0000, Chip Davis wrote:
> It is on Mac OS, where `fork(2)` doesn't play too well with many system frameworks.

`fork()` is particularly slow on macOS, this is negligible for a single prefix but adds up for an app like CrossOver which is managing many bottles and starting them to retrieve settings, etc.

Also I hadn't considered it, but Chip's point is a good one when Wine is running inside a Mac Cocoa app (like CrossOver's launchers).

The error handling and many calls to `posix_spawn()` do complicate the code, I'll see if it would be simpler to pre-generate the possible `wineserver` paths and then loop through them until one succeeds.