ruby-changes:35307
From: akr <ko1@a...>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 01:41:25 +0900 (JST)
Subject: [ruby-changes:35307] akr:r47389 (trunk): Describe about vfork().
akr 2014-09-05 01:41:12 +0900 (Fri, 05 Sep 2014) New Revision: 47389 http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=47389 Log: Describe about vfork(). Modified files: trunk/NEWS Index: NEWS =================================================================== --- NEWS (revision 47388) +++ NEWS (revision 47389) @@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ with all sufficient information, see the https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/NEWS#L53 * Extended method: * Process execution methods such as Process.spawn opens the file in write mode for redirect from [:out, :err]. + * Process creation methods, such as spawn(), uses vfork() system call. + vfork() is faster than fork() when the parent process uses huge memory. * Symbol * New methods -- ML: ruby-changes@q... Info: http://www.atdot.net/~ko1/quickml/