I might be wrong, but I don't think your double fork is doing you any good. On the contrary, on systems where you don't have the COW broquaint is talking about, you'll get even more overhead than you already had

The first fork() will duplicate the perl environment completely, and then the second fork() will duplicate that one. The first child being alive or not won't change any of that.

It might also help to elaborate a bit more on what you mean by overhead. Any extra memory used by the perl copy of the child will be released by the exec, so that's not something to worry about really. And at least on linux there's no timeslice penalty or anything like that for being the child of a resource hog.

In reply to Re: Creating Child without overhead of Parent by Crackers2
in thread Creating Child without overhead of Parent by cxbast

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