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Re: File locking within zsh?

On May 10,  6:04pm, Tim Writer wrote:
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} IIRC, zsh avoids forking in subshells but don't most
} shells implement subshells with fork()?

Zsh forks for subshells, too.  It may avoid an *additional* fork when
the only thing the subshell does is execute an external command, but
it always forks at least once.
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