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Re:Is RAM wiped before use in another LXC container? by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:57AM (#35452081)
In retrospect, fork was big mistake. It complicates a bunch of other things and introduces suboptimal patterns.
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Re:Is RAM wiped before use in another LXC container? by t0suj4 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:31AM (#35452351)
A small reminder: In the age of Unix multiuser systems were very common. Fork was the optimal solution to be able to serve as much concurrent users or programs as possible while keeping the implementation simple.

Today's RAM is cheap.

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Re:Is RAM wiped before use in another LXC container? by moonchrome on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:50AM (#35452519)
So much of design constraints in our base abstractions are not relevant today but we're still cobbling together solutions built on legacy technical decisions.
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