Apparently kpathsea, which is a C library, shells out to implement some functions. That's where their (unclear) comment on forking comes from. This comment fr

Apparently kpathsea, which is a C library, shells out to implement some functions. That's where their (unclear) comment on forking comes from. This comment from the previous post indicates that it might not be such a big deal to fix this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264887 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264887 The whole thread on their earlier post is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264341 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264341 Alas, it is not particularly enlightening.