Taming the OOM killer

fork()+other things+exec() are very common, to implement e.g. redirection
and piping. The call you want exists in POSIX, with the inelegant name
posix_spawn*(), but it's a nightmare of overdesign and a huge family of
functions precisely because it has to model all the things people usually
want to do between fork() and exec(). Its only real use is in embedded
MMUless systems in which fork() is impractical or impossible to implement.