And why the commit message alone does not give all the context. Originally published on Substack.

Originally published on Substack.

Recently an interesting paper from Microsoft Research entitled A fork() in the road advocates that old time fork should be deprecated and replaced by better alternatives.

Recently on the glibc mailing list someone asked why popen or system tend to fail with ENOMEM on some environments, even when it seems that the system does have enough available memory.