UNIX / Linux non-blocking saves

[Anduin1357]

Have you felt scrungled from waiting on this text box?

Want to see it go away and let you just play the game?

For those Linux and UNIX users, we have this fork() system call that serves as our version of creating a new process with this amazing property that the new process is an exact clone of the originating parent process.

Here is an example of a game that has famously implemented this feature to basically eliminate waiting on save.

Factorio Friday Facts #408 - Statistics improvements, Linux adventures