[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

[Paul Gideon Dann]

On Wednesday 15 Aug 2012 18:54:24 Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> > Forking processes does not copy binaries.
> 
> Pulled out of silence for the very very last time.
> 
> It copies the parent which is much larger is what I meant. A real
> problem for embedded where memory fragmentation matters to the point
> that Google had code written just to handle it. The smaller the device,
> the greater the issue tends to be.

I don't think this is true.  If I understand correctly, the code segment of 
the executable image is shared between forks, meaning that the binary size is 
irrelevant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28operating_system%29

Paul