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On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Peter Brooks wrote:

> That's why I'm asking, if there's a genuine reason why there's something 
> wrong with fork/exec, I'm keen to know it, not as Unix bashing, but 
> because I'd like to know what better solution there might be.

It seems to me that an efficient implementation of fork/exec relies on 
memory management tricks such as copy on write and such. This is fine if 
you are using a processor with hardware support for such things but in 
some small scale embedded environments it might be a problem.

Peter