>
>>Jonathan Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> you might avoid *some* of the expense (since, as of Solaris 10, system()
>>> uses vfork(), even on multi-threaded processes. So the "duplicating
>>> the address space just to tear it down at exec() time" cost is gone.
>>
>>Isn't vfork() nowerda
>Jonathan Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> you might avoid *some* of the expense (since, as of Solaris 10, system()
>> uses vfork(), even on multi-threaded processes. So the "duplicating
>> the address space just to tear it down at exec() time" cost is gone.
>
>Isn't vfork() nowerdays only s
>This is slightly offtopic but due lack of a better list for this I am
>asking this here:
>Does Solaris have any C API (maybe something in libc ?) which works like
>/usr/bin/clear but does not require a |fork()| (=expensive call) nor
>uses libcurses/libncurses (e.g. adds another library dependicy)
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:33:43PM -0700, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:00:32AM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> >
> >
> > This is slightly offtopic but due lack of a better list for this I am
> > asking this here:
> > Does Solaris have any C API (maybe some
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:38:05AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Jonathan Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > you might avoid *some* of the expense (since, as of Solaris 10, system()
> > uses vfork(), even on multi-threaded processes. So the "duplicating
> > the address space just to tear it
Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is slightly offtopic but due lack of a better list for this I am
> asking this here:
> Does Solaris have any C API (maybe something in libc ?) which works like
> /usr/bin/clear but does not require a |fork()| (=expensive call) nor
> uses libcurses/li
Jonathan Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you might avoid *some* of the expense (since, as of Solaris 10, system()
> uses vfork(), even on multi-threaded processes. So the "duplicating
> the address space just to tear it down at exec() time" cost is gone.
Isn't vfork() nowerdays only slightly
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:00:32AM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>
>
> This is slightly offtopic but due lack of a better list for this I am
> asking this here:
> Does Solaris have any C API (maybe something in libc ?) which works like
> /usr/bin/clear but does not require a |fork()|
Hi!
This is slightly offtopic but due lack of a better list for this I am
asking this here:
Does Solaris have any C API (maybe something in libc ?) which works like
/usr/bin/clear but does not require a |fork()| (=expensive call) nor
uses libcurses/libncurses (e.g. adds another library depe
