Fork/exec Did a Job Simply & Well - Most of the Problems Mentioned Have Untreated Causes
Fork/exec Did a Job Simply & Well - Most of the Problems Mentioned Have Untreated Causes
Posted Feb 3, 2025 18:47 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Fork/exec Did a Job Simply & Well - Most of the Problems Mentioned Have Untreated Causes by roblucid
Parent article: Process creation in io_uring
> A better question is why are huge monolithic programs with masses of VM mappings forking anyway? Why aren't small main programs, setting up co-operating processes which have memory isolation and then can fire up threads for their heavy weight processing?
Why would you reinvent threading and shared memory?