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Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designsGhosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designsPosted Dec 5, 2010 20:40 UTC (Sun) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)In reply to: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs by nix Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs
except on tiny non-MMU systems, which can theoretically implement spawn*() but not fork()/exec()Cygwin also falls into this category. fork() works there, but it's painfully slow because it copies the entire address space. spawn() is far more efficient.
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