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The existence of OOM is one of the few really stupid things in LinuxThe existence of OOM is one of the few really stupid things in LinuxPosted Nov 8, 2009 23:32 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: The existence of OOM is one of the few really stupid things in Linux by epa Parent article: Toward a smarter OOM killer
Yeah, but forking to exec immediately afterwards is the common case. If
you make that some weird nonportable new variant, 90% of programs are never going to use it, and none of the rest will until some considerable time has passed (time for this call to percolate down into the kernel and glibc --- and try getting this call past Ulrich, ho ho.)
(Anyway, we *have* fork_to_exec_soon(). It's called vfork().)
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