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From: gwyn@BRL.MIL!gwyn
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Re: spawning a child by double forking
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Date: 6 Jul 89 19:07:27 GMT
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In article <12376@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
> It is bad practice to implement a solution which will take one and a half
> times the necessary amount of memory ...

If fork() isn't implemented cheaply on your UNIX system, you already have a
serious problem that needs to be addressed!