We shall open the Tanenbaum, now in its fifth edition circa 2023, no doubt still taught to students all over the world:
> Processes are created in Linux in an especially simple manner. The fork system
call creates an exact copy of the original process.
> The Linux sequence of clone plus exec is yet more orthogonal, since even more fine-grained building blocks are available. As a general rule,
having a small number of orthogonal elements that can be combined in many ways
leads to a small, simple, and elegant system.
Yup, still the same bullshit. It is not elegant, it is not fine-grained, it is not simple, it is certainly not small.