Comment by olliej 4 years ago You're after posix_spawn(2) :D 2 comments olliej Reply modshatereality 4 years ago I don't think i've ever seen posix_spawn(3) in a serious project. Maybe on a small embedded system lacking MMU support? ncmncm 4 years ago On Linux machines it is probably implemented with vfork + exec.But the GP joke is (I guess) in suggesting by the "(2)" that it should be a system call, and not a library function that composes system calls.
modshatereality 4 years ago I don't think i've ever seen posix_spawn(3) in a serious project. Maybe on a small embedded system lacking MMU support? ncmncm 4 years ago On Linux machines it is probably implemented with vfork + exec.But the GP joke is (I guess) in suggesting by the "(2)" that it should be a system call, and not a library function that composes system calls.
ncmncm 4 years ago On Linux machines it is probably implemented with vfork + exec.But the GP joke is (I guess) in suggesting by the "(2)" that it should be a system call, and not a library function that composes system calls.
I don't think i've ever seen posix_spawn(3) in a serious project. Maybe on a small embedded system lacking MMU support?
On Linux machines it is probably implemented with vfork + exec.
But the GP joke is (I guess) in suggesting by the "(2)" that it should be a system call, and not a library function that composes system calls.