Microsoft company blog
A fork() in the road
The received wisdom suggests that Unix’s unusual combination of fork() and exec() for process creation was an inspired design. In this paper, we argue that fork was a clever hack for machines and programs of the 1970s that has long outlived its usefulness and is now a liability. We catalog the ways in which fork […]
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- 257
- HN comments
- 178
- Submissions
- 1
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- 3 commenters
Systems & PerformanceSoftware Engineering2019
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 2019 | A fork() in the road by ralish | 257 | 178 |
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