On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Bill Freeman wrote:
> WRT: extra process from using 'env'.
> 
>       I may be looking at old documentation, but I see nothing about
> an extra process in the man or info page.  I would not expect env to
> need to fork.  What it does cost is an extra exec, which is an
> overhead for the cgi scenario that Ray worries about.  (It would need
> the exec even if it did fork.)  I don't have the sources handy.  Does
> your documentation say that it forks?
> 
>                                                       Bill

IMHO: If it forks, it's broken.  I agree that the exec is all that is needed. 
After all, what would the parent process do ? 


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