As my procmail scripts grow and grow I have started becoming
very paranoid about system load and extra processes. It came
to my mind that
-- If c flag is used, procmail forks a clone. Child executes
that recipe and dies.
-- Other recipes continue in Parent.
Now, I run shell commands that need not to be serialized,
so instead of doing the std way:
:0 hic
| command
I can avoid the extra fork altogether by using
:0
* ? command
{ }
But would it also be same as
dummy = `command`
Any diffrence between 2 and 3 or other remarks?
jari