I think they were already doing that. I'd be very surprised if Apache's mod_cgi in 01997 had been spinning up a whole bash process to spawn off the CGI script a

I think they were already doing that. I'd be very surprised if Apache's mod_cgi in 01997 had been spinning up a whole bash process to spawn off the CGI script as a subprocess! Certainly I haven't seen the passels of useless bash processes in ps that you would get with that approach.