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I don't think CreateProcess() is worse than fork/exec, and I didn't even mention fork/exec. It's pretty natural that one should even jump to the conclusion that "dislike of CreateProcess()" -> "preference for fork/exec", but I'm a bit of a contrarian: I think fork() is awful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30502392

My specific complaint about CreateProcess() is everything to do with how the child process is bootstrapped and how arguments get passed (as a single string! that the child has to parse like it were a shell! gaaaa!!!).

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(Replying to PARENT post)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is how Window's ABI works. Even command line applications have to parse their arguments, and this is just something that C's runtime usually does before main (in contrast to linux ABI, where every process gets an argument array).
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What else is there besides fork/exec?
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