Unless I'm forgetting something, all arguments in all spawn_*() functions are used.
Perhaps you mean utils_spawn()? These were wrappers to g_spawn/win32_spawn with some unused parameters, and are now wrappers for spawn_*() with even more unused parameters. We should deprecate them at some point...
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