Bugs item #550646, was opened at 2002-04-30 07:51
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Category: 15. Commands A-H
Group: = 8.3.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Donal K. Fellows (dkf)
Summary: exec (fork) from huge process fails

Initial Comment:
See comp.lang.tcl thread "Unix forking error".  When
your tclsh
has a huge process size (say 1Gb virtual memory) and
you
"exec ls", it fails on solaris unless you have 1Gb of
virtual
memory free.  The c.l.t. thread contains a test
program.  The
discussion in the thread from Peter Da Silva and others
indicates that you can't just use vfork instead of
fork, but
they have outlined a solution.

(Should I have pasted in big pieces of the c.l.t
discussion?)

- Dave Allen: dallen@[...].com

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