On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 03:34:41PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2017-10-05 17:31:07 -0500, Nico Williams wrote:
> > > >    vfork() is widely demonized, but it's actually quite superior
> > > >    (performance-wise) to fork() when all you want to do is exec-or-exit
> > > >    since no page copying (COW or otherwise) needs be done when using
> > > >    vfork().
> > > 
> > > Not on linux, at least not as of a year or two back.
> > 
> > glibc has it.  Other Linux C libraries might also; I've not checked them
> > all.
> 
> It has it, but it's not more efficient.

Because of signal-blocking issues?

> > > I do think it'd be good to move more towards threads, but not at all for
> > > the reasons mentioned here.
> > 
> > You don't think eliminating a large difference between handling of WIN32
> > vs. POSIX is a good reason?
> 
> I seems like you'd not really get a much reduced set of differences,
> just a *different* set of differences. After investing time.

Fair enough.


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