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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: John Fremlin <chief@bandits.org>,
	"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 22:51:25 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104132243190.26775-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0104131925370.11761-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>



On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On 14 Apr 2001, John Fremlin wrote:
> >
> >					. In fact, if you think
> > fork+exec is such a big performance hit why not go for spawn(2) and
> > have Linus and Al jump on you? ;-)
> 
> spawn() is trivial to implement if you want to. I don't think it's all
> that much more interesting than vfork()+execve(), though.

Or faster, for that matter...


  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-14  2:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-13 23:51 PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first Adam J. Richter
2001-04-14  1:54 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-14  2:29   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-14  2:51     ` Alexander Viro [this message]
2001-04-14  2:52     ` Ulrich Drepper
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-14 16:11 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-14  7:58 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-14  8:42 ` Michael O'Reilly
2001-04-14  9:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-14 15:06   ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-14  2:45 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-13 16:28 Hubertus Franke
2001-04-12 19:45 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-12 19:15 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-12 13:44 Hubertus Franke
2001-04-12  8:55 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-12 12:38 ` Horst von Brand
2001-04-17  9:15   ` Éric Brunet
2001-04-17 14:26     ` Jesse Pollard
2001-04-17 15:32     ` Éric Brunet
2001-04-13 21:08 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-14  3:53 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-14  4:40   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-14 13:35     ` Rik van Riel

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