alt Hacker NewsI just ran into this recently, where I had an obscure bug caused by needing to close more file descriptors in the forked process. "I want a clone of the current process" is just way less common in my experience than "I want a completely new process". It feels crazy that we don't have a way to directly express the latter thing, and can only approximate it by cloning and then fixing things up in post.
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7jjjjjjj • today at 5:00 PM
>It feels crazy that we don't have a way to directly express the latter thing
Isn't that what posix_spawn is for?
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But you generally want to communicate with that process, so you do need to setup e.g. file descriptors and stuff, which needs information from the parent process to be passed.