Subject: Re: _AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL speedup
From: Stepan Kasal <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:30:08 +0100

Hello,

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 06:34:19AM -0800, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 03:03:53PM +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> > $ strace bash -c '{ foo; } 2>/dev/null' 2>&1 | grep clone
> > clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7f93bc8) = 19138
...
> It indeed turns out that `bash' and the V7 Bourne shell fork in all three cases,
> `ash' and `pdksh' fork only in the first two, and `zsh' forks for none.

I had to use
	$ strace bash -c '{ foo; } 2>/dev/null' 2>&1 | grep fork
with my Linux 2.4.x kernel.

But yes, this proves that "{ ...; }" has no advantage over "(exec ...)".

This also means that we don't need any benchmark from the Cygwin people.
(I apologize to cygwin subscribers.)

Thank you, Alexandr,
	Stepan Kasal

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