On 6/15/23 8:32 PM, Sam James wrote:
Hi,
Sorry if this has come up before - I did take a look and couldn't find
anything.
Could bash use posix_spawn/vfork instead of the rather heavyweight
fork?
I haven't looked at them. Bash does more work between fork and exec than
the posix_spawn implementations I've looked at can manage, so it's not a
real win. I've never looked at vfork because there are a lot of assumptions
baked into the code that the child has its own copies of variables and
other data.
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