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trumpdong 38 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Moving beyond fork() + exec()

The value is not needing to change every other syscall and not needing to write new ones with a pid argument (besides which, what when you want to change it to a pidfd argument? then you add pidfd_syscall instead of duplicating every syscall again)

uecker 38 days ago [–]

I meant the value of running syscalls in another process from the parent process in contrast to (v)forking and running them in the child directly.

trumpdong 38 days ago | [–]

The value is starting the child with a clean slate instead of a copy of its parent.

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