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Fork is elegant only in the sense of a 1980s process with one thread. It's basically undefined otherwise. Even back then CreateProcess() would have worked just

Fork is elegant only in the sense of a 1980s process with one thread. It's basically undefined otherwise. Even back then CreateProcess() would have worked just fine.

lisper 9y ago
Also, fork and exec really should be combined into one function.
- gaius 9y ago
  Why? Exec is only one thing you might want to do after a fork...
  - lisper 9y ago
    Because exec is the thing you want to do 99% of the time.
    - gaius 9y ago
      Maaaybe... you might want to daemonize, or you might want to start a "thread" like in the Apache pre-forking mode...
      - lisper 9y ago
        Yeah, there should be a separate daemonize() call too. Pseudo-threading is really the only reason you should ever have to make a direct call to fork().