Re: [RP] xinerama patch bug

[sabetts]

> Quoth Cameron Patrick <address@hidden> on or about Thu, 18
> Dec 2003 13:19:28 +0800:
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:33:46PM +1100, twb wrote:
>> [re. lsheads]
>> | Better as separate program.
>>
>> I'm not sure that it is.  If it was built into ratpoison, it could show
>> what the currently selected head is, and make a work-around for
>> fdump/frestore only applying to one head possible.
>
> But it would only work with ratpoison.  This is why I want separate
> keybinders, separate menus, separate minibuffers.
>
> The counterargument is, of course, the overhead of forking et al.
> --Trent of the Pick-n-mix Unix.

(My puter died so I haven't been able to follow this thread...until now)

I just thot I'd ask: is the overhead of forking...even noticeable??
everytime you type an 'ls' in a shell, yer forking. everytime you pick
your nose under unix yer forking! So, what's the big deal with forking?

Shawn