PING: RFR(s): (new approach) 8223777: In posix_spawn mode, failing to exec() jspawnhelper does not result in an error

[Martin Buchholz]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 10:40 AM Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 7:21 PM Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com>
> wrote:
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>> Unfortunately, it does make the subprocess implementation even
>> more complicated, since now "fail" is used to communicate success as well
>> as failure.  Which probably results in some comments becoming stale.  Can
>> we come up with a better name for "fail" that reflects the new
>> implementation?  I suggest "can_johnny_exec".
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> As in the can_johnny_exec_pipe and its CAN_JOHNNY_EXEC_PIPE_FD ? Sure, why
> not :).
>

Let's do it.  Not sure whether this will make our readability expert Rudolf
Flesch roll over in his grave.