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Re: invoking gunzip.exe
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: invoking gunzip.exe |
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Date: |
Mon, 07 May 2007 22:50:28 -0700 |
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Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> writes:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> But no extra process is involved here; the shell script does not fork.
>...
>> The overhead is so small on my Debian stable host (with a 5-year-old
>> CPU) that I can't easily measure it. Perhaps things are different on
>> Cygwin but I suspect in practice the overhead is relatively small
>> there, too.
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> If you're talking about fork(),
No, since the shell script does not fork.