This is great. I’ve complained about vacuous GUI help before, but I was just faced with the worst example I’ve ever seen. I almost laughed out loud when I saw it. A file chooser comes up in this tool, and glued onto the left hand side of the file chooser is this fine specimen of useful [...]
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I’m not sure why this paper got called “Minimizing Memory Usage for Creating Application Subprocesses”, it should have been called “MT-safe vfork and posix_spawn“. When UNIX was developed, processes were single-threaded, and this had some strong influences on a few of its basic mechanisms. vfork() is one of those mechanisms. If you’ve ever been bit by [...] Vijay forwarded me an email from Eugene and here’s what I wrote: Eugene wrote: |
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