Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:29:20 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first |
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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.
Linus
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