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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Guile NEWS --- history of user-visible changes. -Copyright (C) 1996-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1996-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org. @@ -11,6 +11,19 @@ Changes in 3.0.9 (since 3.0.8) * New interfaces and functionality +** New `spawn' procedure to spawn child processes + +The new `spawn' procedure creates a child processes executing the given +program. It lets you control the environment variables of that process +and redirect its standard input, standard output, and standard error +streams. + +Being implemented in terms of `posix_spawn', it is more portable, more +robust, and more efficient than the combination of `primitive-fork' and +`execl'. See "Processes" in the manual for details, and see the 2019 +paper entitled "A fork() in the road" (Andrew Baumann et al.) for +background information. + ** `open-file' now supports an "e" flag for O_CLOEXEC Until now, the high-level `open-file' facility did not provide a way to |