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Re:Websocketd by _pmf_ on Saturday January 26, 2019 @04:22AM (#19005594)
> Forking a process on Linux uses the same clone() syscall as creating a thread

The conclusion to be drawn is "Linux threads are costly", not "Linux processes are cheap".

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Re:Websocketd by inferiorhuman on Saturday January 26, 2019 @04:31AM (#19005615)
Is it? I seem to remember that spawning a process on Linux was about as fast as a new thread on Windows XP.
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