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You're after posix_spawn(2) :D

I don't think i've ever seen posix_spawn(3) in a serious project. Maybe on a small embedded system lacking MMU support?

On Linux machines it is probably implemented with vfork + exec.

But the GP joke is (I guess) in suggesting by the "(2)" that it should be a system call, and not a library function that composes system calls.