[Cryptography] Swap space (Re: It's all K&R's fault)

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Thu Apr 24 13:50:23 EDT 2014


Nemo <nemo at self-evident.org> writes:

>Well, Windows does not use fork()+exec(); it uses spawn() and its variants.
>Hence it avoids the whole vfork() / "memory overcommit" mess.

Aren't many fork()s now pretty close to vfork(), via COW?

(Feel free to take this off-list if people feel this is too far off topic).

Peter.



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