Re: PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first

[Alexander Viro]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On 14 Apr 2001, John Fremlin wrote:
> >
> >                                     . In fact, if you think
> > fork+exec is such a big performance hit why not go for spawn(2) and
> > have Linus and Al jump on you? ;-)
> 
> spawn() is trivial to implement if you want to. I don't think it's all
> that much more interesting than vfork()+execve(), though.

Or faster, for that matter...

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