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Dev · lwn.net · Sunday, 7 June 2026

Linux adds spawn‑template syscalls to accelerate repeated fork+exec

A new kernel patch introduces spawn_template_create and spawn_template_spawn_args system calls that cache executable metadata, letting applications launch the same binary repeatedly with far less overhead than the traditional fork() followed by exec(). This speeds up workloads like frequent Git invocations while preserving existing security checks.

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