starlight@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > +(However, on such systems, > +the preferred standard way of accomplishing the same result is to use > +.BR posix_spawn (3).) > > I'm not sure I agree on this. Linux posix_spawn() > calls fork() which for us is undesirable on MMU systems > due to the cost of copying large page tables. posix_spawn() under glibc will try to automatically use vfork() instead of fork() in some cases. There is also a GNU-specific POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK flag to force vfork() usage, too. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
