Excessive thrashing when popen()ing after a large malloc()
Igor Peshansky
pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Thu Nov 16 14:15:00 GMT 2006
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > From: Eric Blake
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 9:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: Excessive thrashing when popen()ing after a large malloc()
> >
> > According to Christopher Faylor on 11/15/2006 9:51 AM:
> > >
> > > Fully implementing posix_spawn is quite a bit of work although I did
> > > tell Linus Torvalds that I'd look into implementing it in Cygwin
> > > eventually (it would make git-on-cygwin faster).
> >
> > Wow - Linus actually cares about what happens on cygwin?
>
> Um, Eric... That's called that "name dropping".
Now, wouldn't Linus object to be called a "dropping"?..
Igor
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