object.enable() anti-pattern

[André Malo]

* Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

> Another example is running a subprocess in Unix-like systems.
> 
>      fork()
>      open/close file descriptors, set limits, etc
>      exec*()

For running a subprocess, only fork() is needed. For starting another
executable, only exec() is needed. For running the new executable in a
subprocess fork() and exec() are needed. I think, that's a bad example.
These APIs are actually well-designed.

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