• [$] The beginning of a process-builder API

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Wed Aug 5 06:40:09 2026
    The recent discussion on "spawn templates"
    raised questions about whether it was time to provide an alternative to the classic Unix fork()/exec() pattern for process creation.
    One idea that was raised there was to shift the template pattern into an interface that could be used to efficiently assemble new processes from
    bare cloth, without duplicating the parent process. Preferably, that
    interface would be able to implement posix_spawn().
    Li Chen, the author of the spawn-template work, has now responded with a patch series
    (written with significant LLM assistance) showing what a process-builder
    API for Linux might look like.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1086330/
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