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From: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: core files under SV
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Date: 20 Nov 89 04:36:18 GMT
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Reply-To: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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If you use double-forking to avoid ten lines of child-handling code, you
risk a (very improbable) race condition. And the extra fork wastes more
time than a signal handler. And you may run out of processes.

---Dan