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Implement process spawning on Windows #10544

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Ericson2314 opened this issue Apr 17, 2024 · 3 comments
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Implement process spawning on Windows #10544

Ericson2314 opened this issue Apr 17, 2024 · 3 comments
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Ericson2314 commented Apr 17, 2024

#8901 just stubbed it out for now: we need to put an actual implementation in src/libutil/windows/processes.cc.

As always, a good resource is what was done in the original Windows port:

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This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-on-windows/1113/109

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roberth commented Apr 19, 2024

POSIX spawn was mentioned in another thread.
It'd be good to look into a generic process invoking interface that's implemented for either platform.

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Yes. The original port did indeed offer such an interface, and we should too.

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