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Why does the New menu even exist for creating new ...
> Even Unix follows this pattern for process creation! To create a new process, you clone an existing one (fork) and then delete everything inside it (exec).
I always thought fork was one of the biggest design blunders in unix.
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I always thought fork was one of the biggest design blunders in unix.