FVWM: Exec wasteful

From: Randy J. Ray <rjray_at_uswest.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 17:14:35 -0700

There needs to be a way to get Exec to *not* use a shell in the execution; a
way to have it use execv() directly. Working in a heavy mutil-system
environment, I usually have a lot of xterms running at once, as well as a host
of things spawned by Xdm prior to starting fvwm. After a while, my process
table starts to get dangerously close to full, and my biggest offender are
shells waiting around for their sub-process xterms to complete. If the xterm
is on my local machine, I'm using three processes-- a shell to execute xterm,
xterm itself, and the shell that xterm controls!

Randy

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Received on Thu Mar 27 1997 - 18:15:00 GMT