Re: Overcomittable memory (Was: Linux 2.2.15pre12)

From: Florian Weimer (fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2000 - 16:15:55 EST


jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik) writes:

> On 13 Mar 2000, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
> > This doesn't mean that overcommit is a good idea. It just means that
> > fork()/exec() is not a good way of launching programs.
>
> huh? How else do you propose to launch programs? :)

POSIX_Process_Primitives.Start_Process is standardized and nice, IMHO.

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