On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 12:59 -0400, Shea Levy wrote: > 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?
On noMMU (embedded) systems, fork() is not implementable and vfork() is the only option. Not everyone can afford a Lexus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven J. Magnani "I claim this network for MARS! www.digidescorp.com Earthling, return my space modulator!" #include <standard.disclaimer> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
