On Tuesday 17 June 2008 11:15:20 am Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Ed Schouten wrote: > > * David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have no objections to this, but doesn't it defeat the whole > >> purpose to implement posix_spawn() as a library function that just > >> calls fork/exec? > > > > When (if?) applications start to use posix_spawn() we may decide to move > > it into the kernel at any time. It should be okay for now. > > Are there any benefits of doing it in the kernel vs. doing it via fork+exec?
Speed. You don't have to go mark all your pages as COW or some such only to turn around and throw the new mappings away and undo that. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
