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SubjectRe: [RFD] Combined fork-exec syscall.
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Davide Libenzi wrote:

> This is very much library stuff. I don't think that saving a couple of
> system calls will give you an edge, expecially when we're talking of
> spawning another process. Even if the process itself does nothing but
> return. Ulrich might be eventually interested ...

POSIX has a spawn interface, see <spawn.h> on modern systems. A syscall
should be compatible with this interface.

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