Gregory P. Smith <g...@krypto.org> added the comment:

Thanks for all your research and reference links on this!  As a 
_posixsubprocess maintainer, I am not against either posix_spawn or vfork being 
used directly in the future when feasible.

A challenge, especially with platform specific vfork, is making sure we 
understand exactly which platforms it can work properly on and checking for 
those both at compile time _and_ runtime (running kernel version and 
potentially the runtime libc version?) so that we can only use it in situations 
we are sure it is supposed to behave as desired in.  My guiding philosophy: Be 
conservative on choosing when such a thing is safe to use.

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