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The value is not needing to change every other syscall and not needing to write new ones with a pid argument (besides which, what when you want to change it to

The value is not needing to change every other syscall and not needing to write new ones with a pid argument (besides which, what when you want to change it to a pidfd argument? then you add pidfd_syscall instead of duplicating every syscall again)

uecker 5mo ago
I meant the value of running syscalls in another process from the parent process in contrast to (v)forking and running them in the child directly.
- trumpdong 5mo ago
  The value is starting the child with a clean slate instead of a copy of its parent.