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[$] Moving beyond fork() + exec()

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[$] Moving beyond fork() + exec()

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The Linux kernel's process creation system has two core functions: fork() and exec(). These have been replaced by clone() and execve(), but their functionality remains the same. A recent proposal to add "spawn templates" to the kernel was rejected, but it may lead to a new process-creation primitive in the future.

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