On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:24:56PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Of course reasonable way may mean that bash does some things a bit slower,
> > but given that the whole thing works well in most cases anyway, I think
> > the kernel handling the situation is preferable.
>
> Eh? It makes bash _faster_ for all cases of starting up a child process.
> And it even works on 2.4 kernels.
The point is that even if bash is fixed it's desirable to address the
issue in the kernel, other applications may well misbehave as well.
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