Igor Peshansky wrote:
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
...but doesn't the script itself involve a fork? On a big project, with
an extra fork for every source file, that can still add up.
Don't forget that invoking the gcc executable from make or the shell
involves a fork anyway. If gcc is 'exec'ed from the script, there will
only be the fork that invokes the shell, versus the fork that would have
invoked the executable.
Hmm, ok, I was never convinced that bash's exec builtin didn't still
involve fork()ing. Now I am (having taken a closer look at it).
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