Re: [RFD] Combined fork-exec syscall.

Mirar (mirar+linuxkernel@mirar.org)
28 Apr 2003 09:40:42 +0200


> Is there any interest in a single system call that will perform both a
> fork() and exec()? Could this save some extra work of doing a
> copy_mm(), copy_signals(), etc?

I reall have missed it.

But if you implement one, there are a few extra parameters that can be
nice to have - cwd, uid, gid. I can probably figure out other things
you usually do between fork and exec (chroot, setsid, maybe?).

/Mirar
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