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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Mark Grosberg <mark@nolab.conman.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFD] Combined fork-exec syscall.
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 18:41:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EAC86C4.5070200@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0304271814410.7601-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com>

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Davide Libenzi wrote:

> This is very much library stuff. I don't think that saving a couple of
> system calls will give you an edge, expecially when we're talking of
> spawning another process. Even if the process itself does nothing but
> return. Ulrich might be eventually interested ...

POSIX has a spawn interface, see <spawn.h> on modern systems.  A syscall
should be compatible with this interface.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-28  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-28  0:57 [RFD] Combined fork-exec syscall Mark Grosberg
2003-04-28  0:59 ` Larry McVoy
2003-04-28  1:16   ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-28  1:36     ` Måns Rullgård
2003-04-28  1:45       ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-28  1:49       ` dean gaudet
2003-04-28  1:59         ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-28  2:27           ` Miles Bader
2003-04-28 19:07           ` dean gaudet
2003-05-01 13:14       ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-04-28  1:17 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-04-28  1:28   ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-29  2:01     ` Rafael Costa dos Santos
2003-04-28  1:41   ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2003-04-28  1:49     ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-28  2:19       ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-04-28  6:59       ` Kai Henningsen
2003-04-28  1:35 ` dean gaudet
2003-04-28  1:43   ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-28  3:44     ` Mark Mielke
2003-04-28  5:16       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-28  2:38   ` Davide Libenzi
2003-04-28  2:09 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-28  2:12   ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-28  2:42     ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-28  6:35       ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-29  2:47       ` Rafael Santos
2003-04-28  3:20         ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-28 13:00     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-28 13:22       ` Andreas Schwab
2003-04-28 13:57         ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-28 13:57           ` Andreas Schwab
2003-04-28 14:16             ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-28 14:38               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-28 14:56                 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-28 14:42               ` Andreas Schwab
2003-04-28 16:36       ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-28 17:19         ` Davide Libenzi
2003-04-28 18:28         ` Craig Ruff
2003-05-06  2:48         ` Miles Bader
2003-04-29 18:50       ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-28  2:32   ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-28  7:40 ` Mirar
2003-04-28 12:45 ` Matthias Andree
2003-04-29  1:05 ` Rafael Costa dos Santos
2003-04-28  1:19   ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-29  1:29     ` Rafael Costa dos Santos
2003-04-28  3:03 Davide Libenzi

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