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

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:29:20 -0700 (PDT)

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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