On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 08:35:00AM -0800, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > Here's the difference: > - `bash -c /bin/true` directly execs /bin/true without a fork > - `dash -c /bin/true` always fork & execs [snip] > (Side note: bash's lack of fork is surprising, but I'm surely ignorant of > some details.)
Found a note in bash's CHANGES [1] file about this: | b. Bash attempts to optimize the number of times it forks when executing | commands in subshells and from `bash -c'. This was a new feature in 5.1-alpha. Ross [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/CHANGES#n1025 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
