Hello,

The vfork(2) manpage states "It is rather unfortunate that Linux revived this 
specter from the past", but on systems with overcommit turned off fork(2) can 
be needlessly prohibitive when the goal is to execve(2) right away. Is there a 
third alternative for the fork/execve case? If not, should the manpage really 
be so dismissive of vfork?

Cheers,
Shea Levy--
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