Subject: Re: find uses 400MB memory
To: Chuck Silvers , Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/14/2001 16:14:52
On Sep 14,  8:29am, Chuck Silvers wrote:
} Subject: Re: find uses 400MB memory
} hi,
} 
} we should really figure out how to make execvp() avoid using malloc()
} rather than working around the problem in applications.  vfork() and
} execvp() is a natural combination, having them not work together is
} pretty suboptimal.

Why not use alloca(), in spite of the comment in BUGS?