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anticensor on Oct 5, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: A future for fork(2)

Bourne-like shells do not interact well with spawn(2). Their foreground execution semantics require forking.

DonHopkins on Oct 5, 2018 [–]

There should be a system call called spork(2) that handles both use cases.

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