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Some miscellaneous stuff that doesn't fit otherwise into the structure…
For example, speed test by ''timeout'' + ''dd'', windows_fork_problems…
root@ubuntu:~# timeout --foreground -s INT 60s dd if=/dev/sda bs=4096 of=/dev/null # ad-hoc USB3 storage speed test...
On Windows (Win32 API), a process can well have threads, but no fork()
-without-exec()
is possible, as processes are created to be separate (spawn?)…
The CygWin compatibility layer for Linux/UNIX-targetted programs had to work hard to get something similar going: CygWin highlights: Process Creation (via ansible controller heavy user of fork() without exec())