alt Hacker News>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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toast0 • today at 5:15 PM
posix_spawn addresses the need from userspace. Under the hood, it's still doing more or less a fork/exec, with the baggage that comes with it. A syscall would be nicer.
And how do you think posix_spawn is implemented?