On Wednesday 15 Aug 2012 18:54:24 Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > Forking processes does not copy binaries. > > Pulled out of silence for the very very last time. > > It copies the parent which is much larger is what I meant. A real > problem for embedded where memory fragmentation matters to the point > that Google had code written just to handle it. The smaller the device, > the greater the issue tends to be. I don't think this is true. If I understand correctly, the code segment of the executable image is shared between forks, meaning that the binary size is irrelevant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28operating_system%29 Paul
