Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar ago 10 19:49:18 -0400 2010:
> Offhand the only clean way I can see to launch a child process is to
> fork *and exec something*.
You probably should close any open file descriptors too, just to be
safe. (Or do we set FD_CLOEXEC on them?)
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