From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 22:51:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 22:51:47 -0400 Received: from 216-60-128-137.ati.utexas.edu ([216.60.128.137]:60573 "HELO tsunami.webofficenow.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 22:51:29 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Rob Landley Reply-To: landley@webofficenow.com To: Larry McVoy , "J . A . Magallon" Subject: Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 16:24:33 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: landley@webofficenow.com, Mikulas Patocka , Timur Tabi , "linux-kernel @ vger . kernel . org" In-Reply-To: <20010625003002.A1767@werewolf.able.es> <20010624165024.H8832@work.bitmover.com> In-Reply-To: <20010624165024.H8832@work.bitmover.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0106241624340C.03436@localhost.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 24 June 2001 19:50, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:30:02AM +0200, J . A . Magallon wrote: > > They use fork(). > > They port their app to solaris. > > The performance sucks. > > It is not Solaris fault. > > It is linux fast fork() ... > > One for the quotes page, eh? We're terribly sorry, we'll get busy on > adding some delay loops in Linux so it too can be slow. I'm still working that one out myself... Okay, so Linux programmers are supposed to avoid APIs that are either broken, badly implemented, or missing, on some other platform. That's pretty much all of them, isn't it? Rob