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From:
Zefram
Date:
December 7, 2011 03:51
Subject:
Re: Autoloading and Preloading
Message ID:
20111207115132.GA10488@lake.fysh.org
Adam Kennedy wrote:
>...because once anyone used prefork anywhere it would somehow attach
>itself and trigger the functionality in the Perl fork() function
>itself somehow.

Eww, bad idea.  fork() is used for more purposes than just creating
near-identical service processes.  To make fork() by default do much
more than just the syscall would be dangerously surprising.

-zefram

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