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Date: Fri,  4 Dec 2009 22:11:55 -0700
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ideas for helpful system io functions
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> Where FD passing is useful is to avoid that fork/exec overhead.

Sorry -- brain in neutral. Where FD passing wins BIG is that the front-end
process doesn't have to do copy-through of all the data between the
network and the back-end process.