On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 13:07, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Umm... I'm sorry. I haven't catch why OOM is related topic. Could you please > elaborate more? With fork you always have some copy-on-write (and worse for overcommit) just to then execute exec. With a real spawn implementation you wouldn't have that. A big problem if you, for instance, have to spawn a small helper from a gigantic process. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
