fork is a massive feature, not a bug.
fork() is a misfeature, as is SIGCHILD/wait and most of Unix process management. It worked fine on PDP-11 and that's it.
But Linux also overcommits mmap-anonymous/sbrk, while Windows leaves the decision to the user space, which is significantly slower.
alt Hacker News
fork() is a misfeature, as is SIGCHILD/wait and most of Unix process management. It worked fine on PDP-11 and that's it.
But Linux also overcommits mmap-anonymous/sbrk, while Windows leaves the decision to the user space, which is significantly slower.