Comment by cryptonector
4 years ago
You fail to address any of the substance of their paper, or of my gist (TFA), then go on a rant about unrelated things. The authors of that paper deserve better treatment even if you hate Microsoft.
4 years ago
You fail to address any of the substance of their paper, or of my gist (TFA), then go on a rant about unrelated things. The authors of that paper deserve better treatment even if you hate Microsoft.
I did. Chesterton Fence. fork() has been in Unix from the beginning. Taking it out at this point will cause more problems than it solves. Until you have a working Unix distro (kernel AND common userland services) that elegantly covers all of the forkless cases, your paper and their paper are just opinions. Theirs is a formally written one. Yours is a clickbaity one. And casting vfork() as any kind of improvement here is just bonkers.
And the rant is totally related: i.e. devs breaking things that worked just fine to begin with for the sake of doctrinal purity. It is usually a false doctrine.
I'm not proposing that fork() be removed. Microsoft is much more interested in not ever implementing fork() than I am in removing it. So your dilapidated fence can stay up where it's up.