The article pointed out legitimate drawbacks related to the intersection of fork() and other features like posix threads. The paper mentions the benefit of pos

The article pointed out legitimate drawbacks related to the intersection of fork() and other features like posix threads. The paper mentions the benefit of posix_spawn for the fork+exec use case. I might've seen posix_spawn while skimming a manpage or browsing a change log but this is the first time that I'd actually learned about its purpose. The article's conclusion isn't "and therefore Linux is bad" btw.