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Date:  Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:11:06 -0600
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Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> ...but doesn't the script itself involve a fork? On a big project, with
>> an extra fork for every source file, that can still add up.
> 
> Don't forget that invoking the gcc executable from make or the shell
> involves a fork anyway.  If gcc is 'exec'ed from the script, there will
> only be the fork that invokes the shell, versus the fork that would have
> invoked the executable.

Hmm, ok, I was never convinced that bash's exec builtin didn't still 
involve fork()ing. Now I am (having taken a closer look at it).

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Matthew
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