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Re: Potential new syscall



On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 09:08:15AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> Kamil - "just use fork" is a very common response, but no matter how
> fork gets implemented, vfork() when used correctly always performs
> better by huge margins.

But most of those cases are handled just as well by posix_spawn. Which
doesn't have any of the thread-safety issues that vfork has.

Joerg


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