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Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory?
From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed,  5 Sep 2007 06:53:27 -0400
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> That's why many OSes have a "spawn" primitive that combines fork-and-exec.

the problem with spawn is it requires a mechanism to replace that little
block of code between the fork and exec.  that code is hardly ever the
same so spawn keeps growing arguments.

- erik