2012/5/31 Jordan : > AZ 9901 : >> >> Make an infinite loop with no fork, and look at the memory usage. >> Then, make an infinite loop with one fork and look at the memory >> >> I really hope a solution will be found one day >> > > Argh! And I really like CygWin, so I was hoping to learn that this is > resolvable. > > (Of course I could start uninstalling BLODA programs, but it's a fairly > inconvenient solution.) > > Maybe I'll just write a C program or Perl script to do the same thing. > A Perl script won't run into the same forking issue, will it? > (Assuming I use a Perl library to get the MD5 hash, rather than calling > out to execute md5sum?) > Yes using a library it should be OK ! Using "system" to call md5sum will give you the bad fork effect.
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