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You fail to address any of the substance of their paper, or of my gist (TFA), then go on a rant about unrelated things. The authors of that paper deserve bette
by cryptonector 5y ago
You fail to address any of the substance of their paper, or of my gist (TFA), then go on a rant about unrelated things. The authors of that paper deserve better treatment even if you hate Microsoft.
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- georgia_peach 5y agoI did. Chesterton Fence. fork() has been in Unix from the beginning. Taking it out at this point will cause more problems than it solves. Until you have a working Unix distro (kernel AND common userland services) that elegantly covers all of the forkless cases, your paper and their paper are just opinions. Theirs is a formally written one. Yours is a clickbaity one. And casting vfork() as any kind of improvement here is just bonkers. And the rant is totally related: i.e. devs breaking things that worked just fine to begin with for the sake of doctrinal purity. It is usually a false doctrine.
- cryptonector 5y agoI'm not proposing that fork() be removed. Microsoft is much more interested in not ever implementing fork() than I am in removing it. So your dilapidated fence can stay up where it's up.