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		kllrnohj on Feb 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fork() is evil; vfork() is goodness; afork() would... The more stuff that piles on using pthread_atfork then also contribute to fork() being unnecessarily slow for the specific combination of fork+exec.

kazinator on Feb 28, 2022 [–]

Right, and so POSIX "fixed" that by standardizing posix_spawn. Thus fork is now mainly for those scenarios in which exec is not called, plus traditional coding that is portable to old systems.

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