Spawn is a small library exposing only one function: Spawn.spawn. Its purpose is to start command in the background. Spawn aims to provide a few missing features of Unix.create_process such as providing a working directory as well as improving error reporting and performance.
Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.
The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.
Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.
Problem reports, updates or suggestions for this package should be reported with send-pr.