Re: [perl #128227] perlbug AutoReply: vfork should be used forspawning external processes

> https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128227

Another note:

I hit ENOMEM when attempting to spawn one small subprocess from
a giant Perl process.  I had enough RAM for the small subprocess
(but not enough for a full fork of the giant Perl process).

The kernel could not know the fork() was for an execve() shortly
afterwards when preparing for CoW, so it bailed with ENOMEM on
fork().

Using posix_spawn (where glibc uses CLONE_VFORK behind-the-scenes)
or vfork for spawning subprocesses would've avoided this problem.

• Re: [perl #128227] perlbug AutoReply: vfork should be used forspawning external processes by Eric Wong
• Re: [perl #128227] perlbug: vfork should be used for spawningexternal processes by Mark Overmeer