Package ocaml-spawn: Information

Source package: ocaml-spawn

Version: 0.17.0-alt1

Build time:  Apr 9, 2025, 03:24 AM

Category: Development/ML

Home page: https://github.com/janestreet/spawn

VCS: https://github.com/janestreet/spawn

License: MIT

Summary: OCAML SPAWN - spawning system process

Description: 

Spawn is a small library exposing only one functionality: spawning sub-process.
It has three main goals:
    1. provide missing features of Unix.create_process such as
       providing a working directory

    2. provide better errors when a system call fails in the sub-process.
       For instance if a command is not found, you get
       a proper [Unix.Unix_error] exception

    3. improve performance by using vfork when available. It is often
    claimed that nowadays fork is as fast as vfork, however in practice fork
    takes time proportional to the process memory while vfork is constant time.
    In application using a lot of memory, vfork can be thousands of times
    faster than fork.

List of RPM packages built from this SRPM:
ocaml-spawn (e2kv6, e2kv5, e2kv4, e2k)
ocaml-spawn-debuginfo (e2kv6, e2kv5, e2kv4, e2k)
ocaml-spawn-devel (e2kv6, e2kv5, e2kv4, e2k)

Maintainer: Anton Farygin