Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] MR4468: ntdll: Use posix_spawn() to start the server.

[Brendan Shanks (＠bshanks)]

On Wed Nov 29 01:00:46 2023 +0000, Brendan Shanks wrote:
> `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.

I pushed a new version which factors out the generation of possible paths to a function, this allows for just a single call to `execv`/`posix_spawn`.