[comp.unix] spawning a child by double forking

gwyn (07/07/89)

In article <12376@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
> It is bad practice to implement a solution which will take one and a half
> times the necessary amount of memory ...

If fork() isn't implemented cheaply on your UNIX system, you already have a
serious problem that needs to be addressed!