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diff --git a/open_issues/performance/fork.mdwn b/open_issues/performance/fork.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 5ceb6455..00000000 --- a/open_issues/performance/fork.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,37 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!tag open_issue_glibc open_issue_hurd]] - -Our [[`fork` implementation|glibc/fork]] is nontrivial. - -To do: hard numbers. -[[Microbenchmarks]]? - - -# Windows / Cygwin - - * <http://www.google.com/search?q=cygwin+fork> - - * <http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/cygnus/cygnus_cygwin/architecture.html> - - In particular, *5.6. Process Creation*. - - * <http://archive.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=360290> - - * <http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/how-cygheap-works.txt?cvsroot=src> - - > Cygwin has recently adopted something called the "cygwin heap". This is - > an internal heap that is inherited by forked/execed children. It - > consists of process specific information that should be inherited. So - > things like the file descriptor table, the current working directory, and - > the chroot value live there. - - * <http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=588994> |