On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > Skipping MAP_SHARED in fork() sounds like a good idea to me... > > > > Indeed. Linus, can you remember why we haven't done this before?
Hmm. Historical reasons. Also, if the child ends up needing it, it will now have to fault them in. That said, I think it's a valid optimization. Especially as the child _probably_ doesn't need it (ie there's at least some likelihood of an execve() or similar). Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/