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On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 06:56:35PM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
> Similarly, this gives you the functionality of spawn, without the
> downside of a singularly complicated interface. Could you have
> implemented that in something as small as the PDP-7? Perhaps not, but
> it does not follow that `fork` now remains a good primitive.

Our spawnvp() implmentation is 40 lines of code.  Worked fine everywhere.
I can post it if you like.