{
  "id": 131402,
  "title": "[$] The beginning of a process-builder API",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/the-beginning-of-a-process-builder-api",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-04T13:27:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "LWN",
    "slug": "lwn",
    "url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1086330/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The recent discussion on \"spawn templates\" raised questions about whether it was time to provide an alternative to the classic Unix fork() / exec() pattern for process creation. One idea that was raised there was to shift the template pattern into an interface that could be used to efficiently assemble new processes from bare cloth, without duplicating the parent process. Preferably, that…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}