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		twic on March 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fork() is evil; vfork() is goodness; afork() would... The behaviour of subprocesses inheriting resources like file descriptors is absolutely bizarre. Why on earth would you want this to be the default?! But we're so used to it, we think it's normal.

cryptonector on March 2, 2022 [–]

Windows did the opposite and that still resulted in problems.

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