Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)

[Ulrich Drepper]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 13:07, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Umm... I'm sorry. I haven't catch why OOM is related topic. Could you please
> elaborate more?

With fork you always have some copy-on-write (and worse for
overcommit) just to then execute exec.  With a real spawn
implementation you wouldn't have that.  A big problem if you, for
instance, have to spawn a small helper from a gigantic process.
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