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Author neologix
Recipients asksol, brandon-rhodes, cool-RR, dholth, jnoller, neologix, numbernine, pitrou, rcoyner, santoso.wijaya, sbt, vsekhar
Date 2011-12-21.16:05:50
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> There is probably lots of such code:

> I'm not convinced about making it the default behaviour, and 
> certainly not the only one.

Then I'm not convinced that this patch is useful.
Having three different implentations and code paths doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
fork() vs fork() + exec() is an implementation detail, and exposing such tweakables to the user will only make confusion worse.
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2011-12-21 16:05:50neologixsetrecipients: + neologix, pitrou, jnoller, rcoyner, asksol, cool-RR, dholth, brandon-rhodes, santoso.wijaya, sbt, numbernine, vsekhar
2011-12-21 16:05:50neologixsetmessageid: <1324483550.91.0.0679880012559.issue8713@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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