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> Fill with what stuff exactly?

Yes, exactly. Cloning, as a process creation primitive, is the one thing that doesn't need to be concerned with other stuff.

> … a git-subprocess forked from a web server …

That's pulling in a whole load of assumptions that are distinct from process creation. You can have processes in an environment that has no concept of file system or persistent storage at all.



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