> > The received wisdom suggests that Unix’s unusual combination of fork() and exec() for process creation was an inspired design. > No, it was done that way s

> > The received wisdom suggests that Unix’s unusual combination of fork() and exec() for process creation was an inspired design. > No, it was done that way so that you could launch a program that was too big to fit in memory with the parent program. Ironically vfork() is even better in this regard. I wish Unix had only ever had vfork().