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uecker 88 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Moving beyond fork() + exec()

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 88 days ago [–]

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

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